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Not that it'd ever happen, but I would very much enjoy watching what would unfold if Google ceased to provide services to these nations. Can you imagine the ba

by Donzo 12y ago

Not that it'd ever happen, but I would very much enjoy watching what would unfold if Google ceased to provide services to these nations. Can you imagine the backlash?

eknkc 12y ago
That would result in a backlash about Google going bankrupt rather than ceasing of services from EU.
pavlov 12y ago
"Bwaah, we'll take our oddly-shaped football and go home" is a common knee-jerk response from Americans, but it makes as little sense as MEPs suggesting to break up Google. The way to solve these issues is dialogue. Google tried long and hard to reason with the Chinese Communist Party, after all. Compared to the CCP, the European Parliament is a paragon of transparency and democracy.
Dewie 12y ago
I seem to remember that I used Altavista before google.com. I guess I would move on to another search engine. DuckDuckGo might be good enough, I guess, and there's also Bing (I guess DDGo uses Bing?). Most people would use whatever search engine that the browser than defaulted to. Maybe they'd still find what they want. People would have to find other video sites to procrastinate and entertain themselves than YouTube. I don't know if there are any video sites which are competitive when it comes to providing content compared to YouTube. If so I guess people would go back more to professionally made entertainment (yes, of course not all or perhaps even most of YouTube is amateur). People would replace Google+ with... oh that one doesn't matter.
- pjc50 12y ago
  The European alternative to Youtube would be Dailymotion, a French company part-owned by Orange. People are used to getting the occasional "This video is unavailable in your country" failure from Youtube; this might be less of a problem with a local operator.
  - Dewie 12y ago
    It's local to France, at least.

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Not that it'd ever happen, but I would very much enjoy watching what would unfold if Google ceased to provide services to these nations. Can you imagine the ba

by Donzo 12y ago

Not that it'd ever happen, but I would very much enjoy watching what would unfold if Google ceased to provide services to these nations. Can you imagine the backlash?

eknkc 12y ago
That would result in a backlash about Google going bankrupt rather than ceasing of services from EU.
pavlov 12y ago
"Bwaah, we'll take our oddly-shaped football and go home" is a common knee-jerk response from Americans, but it makes as little sense as MEPs suggesting to break up Google. The way to solve these issues is dialogue. Google tried long and hard to reason with the Chinese Communist Party, after all. Compared to the CCP, the European Parliament is a paragon of transparency and democracy.
Dewie 12y ago
I seem to remember that I used Altavista before google.com. I guess I would move on to another search engine. DuckDuckGo might be good enough, I guess, and there's also Bing (I guess DDGo uses Bing?). Most people would use whatever search engine that the browser than defaulted to. Maybe they'd still find what they want. People would have to find other video sites to procrastinate and entertain themselves than YouTube. I don't know if there are any video sites which are competitive when it comes to providing content compared to YouTube. If so I guess people would go back more to professionally made entertainment (yes, of course not all or perhaps even most of YouTube is amateur). People would replace Google+ with... oh that one doesn't matter.
- pjc50 12y ago
  The European alternative to Youtube would be Dailymotion, a French company part-owned by Orange. People are used to getting the occasional "This video is unavailable in your country" failure from Youtube; this might be less of a problem with a local operator.
  - Dewie 12y ago
    It's local to France, at least.