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The search engine investigations seem to be an American tech proxy war, too: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/28/google-still-abusing-search-engin
by pgeorgi 8y ago
The search engine investigations seem to be an American tech proxy war, too: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/28/google-still-abusing-search-engine-monopoly-rivals-tell-eu/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/28/google-sti... indicates that one of the bigger complainants is the Fairsearch consortium, which seems to be influenced by Oracle and Microsoft (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairSearch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairSearch)
- AnaniasAnanas 8y ago> In September 2012 Oracle and Nokia joined[9] in filing a complaint regarding Android with the European Commission, alleging that its free-of-charge distribution model constituted anti-competitive predatory pricing A "consumer protection" organization, huh? I do wonder how these lobbying organizations are even legal.
- icebraining 8y agoI think the EU position is that companies are gonna lobby anyway, and it's preferable that they are transparent about it. FairSearch seems quite clear in its motives and members.