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What about the money the French make by using Google services? Desktop search traffic originating from Google is 90% - presumably for a good reason. https://ww
by vixen99 7y ago
What about the money the French make by using Google services? Desktop search traffic originating from Google is 90% - presumably for a good reason.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/220534/googles-share-of-search-market-in-selected-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/220534/googles-share-of-...
- sbov 7y agoHow much of that money is money that was going to be spent anyways? It's only money Google "made" for the French if it wasn't going to be spent in France in the first place.
- nybble41 7y agoIt's not the quantity of money spent that matters, but rather the value received in exchange. People spent their money at e.g. Amazon because that is where they expected to receive the most value for it. Take that option away and the money will still be spent but the value received in return will be less.
- JAlexoid 7y agoIrrelevant. You know perfectly well that this tax is exclusively to counter the tax burden shifting. If corporations were setting up companies in countries and paid reasonable taxes on profits generated in those countries... no one would raise the possibility of these taxes.
- ripdog 7y agoThe market already rewards Google for their services by the absurd amount of money they make. The government is generally not in the business of rewarding businesses for their services.
- davesmith1983 7y agoWell Google lost about 70 billion recently