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Ed Felten's article on this from a couple of months ago provides an excellent analysis. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/28/european-authorities-fine-goog
by readams 9y ago
Ed Felten's article on this from a couple of months ago provides an excellent analysis.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/28/european-authorities-fine-google-for-search-tactics/ https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/28/european-authoritie...
"At this point, I need to put some of my cards on the table and admit that I know more about this topic, having worked on the FTC’s investigation which asked some of the same questions. But that investigation was confidential, for good reasons, and I will not violate that confidentiality. All I’ll say is that the FTC had the legal power to compel answers to factual questions about Google’s practices (and an obligation to keep the answers confidential) and, having conducted a thorough investigation, the FTC decided not to bring a case against Google."
- flexie 9y agoSo 'Trust me, I can't say why, but they are okay'. FTC applies US rules, the EU Commission applies EU law. You can stay clear of one while still violating the other.
- sametmax 9y agoAnd given that Google is an American companies, there is a strong possibility that they got helped for the FTC that they will not have with the EUC.
- Aissen 9y agoYou seem to forget that a fundamental number: while Google Search has between 68% and 80% market share in the US, it has between 90% and 95% in most of Europe. The difference between being a monopoly or not.
- yoz-y 9y agoInteresting. Is this because Bing/Yahoo have better regional results in US? I try to use duck duck go when I can but I can definitely see that for local searches it is worse than Google.