Cloud Computing: The EU’s obsession with Google shows how little it understands the digital economy
November 30, 2014
Grazed from TheConversation. Author: David Glance.
The Parliament of the European Union last week voted to call on member states and the European Commission to investigate the operation of search engines in Europe to ensure “a balanced, fair and open internet search structure”.
Although the official text of the resolution doesn’t mention Google specifically by name, the message was clearly aimed at the company that claims 93% of the European search market. The Parliament called on the EC to “consider proposals aimed at unbundling search engines from other commercial services”…
The EU’s aim in all of this was to try and bring about what it considered a “level playing field” that allows competition from other search providers. It is also concerned, because Google’s competitors have voiced these concerns, that Google is using search as a way of unfairly driving traffic to its own services, in preference to the competition…
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