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Google maps includes sponsored locations when you search for things on the map. Are we going to also prosecute Google for providing free web search, making it
by mlinsey 15y ago
Google maps includes sponsored locations when you search for things on the map.
Are we going to also prosecute Google for providing free web search, making it impossible to make a competing search engine that charges users 10 Euro cents per query?
- potatolicious 15y agoYou've missed the point entirely. If Google provided free web search, killing off all commercial competitors, and then started charging fees for searches now that all competitors are dead, then yes, they would probably be prosecuted. If GMaps had remained free this whole shebang might have been avoided.
- myko 15y agoWait, I thought Google charging for Maps was a direct result of being sued by a French company? http://www.techspot.com/news/35632-google-sued-in-france-over-google-maps.html# http://www.techspot.com/news/35632-google-sued-in-france-ove...