BTFO

Why?

>>61103891
was promoting it's own shops as in OPs image.

>>61103871
there is already a thread about this
>>61103210

but yeah, it would be easier to find it you guys stopped using retarded titles (or you know, post actually useful information)

>>61103891
Advertisement is illegal in europe.

>>61103891
In google shopping searches, google shops were promoted above others. This is anti-trust in real countries.
In the US this would have just been called 'sensible business practice'. It also means that google has officially been named as a monopoly.

why all the sudden google hate?

seems targeted honestly...

>>61103945
There's no hate, they just got rekt.

>>61103945
because they became too big, now they are becoming corrupt and soon Google will die.

I love Europe's digital laws

They have been messing with Microsoft for ages too

>>61103922

It isn't yet but it should be.

EU is bad
So many retarded regulations

Wish my country left it

>>61104018
They also fined intel for anti-trust too.

America... doesn't care. In America, corruption and bribery is rewarded, not punished.

>>61103945
>sudden
newbie spotted

>>61103923
You don't have to use fucking Google. It's not a monopoly, there are other search engines

>>61104018
EU Gods will save us from Microshit's totalitarianism.

>>61103945
No specific Google hate but if non-European companies make a lot of money in Europe they will just fine them billions for bullshit to prevent a ban. It's a bit like paying protection money to the Mafia.

They did this to Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi, Intel, Qualcomm, LG, Samsung, Panasonic, etc.

It's literally just extortion by the EU. But I'm okay with it.

t. Eurofag.

>jews jewing jews
wow its nothing. also $2.7 billion is pocket change to google

>>61104106
The EU disagrees.

>>61104119
>to prevent a ban.

*or risk a ban.

Sry, non native English speaker.

>>61103900
Is there some universal human right that sponsored results not be owned by google? Its their site, not exactly a public resource

>>61104081
But Europe is a shithole anon, America at least has a based president.

Enjoy your immigrants!

>>61104106
The problem is it's defaulted to every browser instead of offering a choice. Plus it pushes it's own products into your face. Monopolies are illegal in EU, which is good. Why the fuck are you supporting forced ads and centralism?

>>61103980
>>61104093
>>61104017
>>61104125

wtf i thought chrome was /g/s browser of choice??

>>61103871
>Google is worth $109.5 billion USD

>>61104166
Yeah that's right!! Europe sucks cause it's Muslim majority now

We have a much better prez, KEKISTAN approved amiright?

did you also fight in the memetic war? then you will understand this: S H A D I L A Y

God Emperor is the Savior of the White Race and Western Civilizations. Cucks don't realize this

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>>61104170
Americans support corporations and monopolies because they are cucks.

>>61104170
Not him but I would rather not see governments involve themselves unnecessarily in the business world. Haven't read much on this particular fine but it seems that Google was just doing good business and it doesn't exactly seem unethical; it isn't like they blocked all results but theirs or anything.

>>61104149
Company cannot give special treatment to anyone, not self not promotees unless clearly labelled.

>>61104190
how does google make money if everything is free?

also youtube imagine all those hard drives and bandwidth required

how do they host the play store and gmail and chrome and chromeos????

>>61104214
most if not all Google revenue comes from Ads

>>61104149
Its the EU, don't question it, they're fucking idiots who constantly single companies out because they know they can leverage easy money out of it.

>>61104207
>involve themselves unnecessarily in the business world
Everyone agrees with this, but it's the line which constitutes 'necessary' that is the subject of the debate.

But Americans usually don't understand that a government is representing the people under its wing and so will go after businesses that are acting against the common interest. Even considering the common interest, let alone taking action in it (even if it's kinda foolish) is a completely alien concept to americans.

>>61104256
>Company breaks EU laws
>EU is singling them out

so, do cops also single you out when they give you speeding ticket?

>>61104274
but businesses are part of the people under said government. and to go against corporations is to go against tax payers

>>61104210
>>61104281
The results in the OP image are clearly labelled "sponsered"...

>>61104288
Corporations are people, yes, good goyim.

>>61104288
Fortunately, in the EU businesses aren't equalised with tax payers.

lmao EU acting though again even though your average european couldn't survive a day without google

>>61103871
S T A R T P A G E D O T C O M

Who the fuck actually uses Google anymore?

>>61103945
Goygle is for fucking cucks.

>>61104316
read the article, it explains everything better than I ever could.

>>61104288
See what I mean? Completely alien concept to americans. Corporations aren't people.
The people who are part of those corporations also deserve the same protection from their own corporation that people outside it get.

Protip: Only those that OWN the corporation have any say in what the corporation does.

>>61104340
Which is why google is heavily regulated, just like water.

RIP Google, no way they recover from this one. Simply nobody has that kind of money

>>61104316
What? Have you read anything about this or are you just saying dumb shit?

Read this: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm

>>61103871
Well you see EU hit google,because it is desperately needs money,and jews want all money in thier hands so there is no problem fines from jew to jew.

>>61103871
Based EU extorting money from Americunts.


Feels good, man.

>>61104170
Firefox's default is Yahoo. Internet Explorer's is Bing.

>>61104170
Monopolies are NOT illegal in the EU, they have however to follow special laws (antitrust laws), which Google broke.

>>61103891
They have to find some way to pay for all the Muslims destroying their countries.

>Google gives generous donation to EU after ICANN gets transferred to them

really nozzles your noggin

>>61104509
Thanks for paying for my taxes cuck.

>>61104484
>Firefox's default is Yahoo.
Nope, Google.
>Internet Explorer's is Bing.
Nobody gives a shit about IE/Edge.

And again, neither browser provides an initial choice unless you go to settings manually.

>>61104546
I installed Firefox just yesterday on a new laptop. It's Yahoo.

Kikes kiking kikes

>>61103871
>>61103871
>2.7bn
yes well done Google well done.

However
https://www.ft.com/content/54261860-e7ab-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539?mhq5j=e1

>>61104505
There are no monopoly laws in EU, there are competition laws in EU and antitrust law is part of competition laws, you fucking moron.

>>61104176
is this a clever trick to make ur accidental reveal of ur newness look like an on purpose thing

>>61104017
>Google will die.
>Google
>Die
Pick one and only one

>>61104566
>There are no monopoly laws in EU

Yes, there's nothing called monopoly laws but there are laws that only apply to companies with dominant market positions (monopolies), which is what I stated, you fucking moron.

>$600 Billion worth
>pay 2.7 billion
Wow, it's fucking nothing

>>61104560
I installed it 3 days ago and Google was the default. It's always my default browser on any OS and it always uses google.com as the default search engine. If it moves you to Yahoo it's your operating system forcing a default on browser, like they sometimes do on android modified by the carriers. Mozilla wouldn't switch to yahoo without a notice.

>>61104615
You just explained why it's Google for you.

so Google isn't allowed to advertise their own stores? haha what the fuck EU is aids

>>61103871
I really can't say I agree with this.
What is next? Complaints because when you search for images on Google you get Google's Image results above other image search engines?
Search for videos and you get Youtube above Facebook?

The page is scrollable. You can compare results. I mean fuck if you search for "rain gear" you haven't even indicated that you're SHOPPING for rain gear.

The sponsored bit at the top of results pages doesn't even push any results off the first page, it just sits above them (not even always above them). The EU is just being a dick about this.

>>61104632
>>61104632
Of course they are. They just have to advertise them as much as any other. Or they can do it somewhere that's not google.com.

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>>61104274
> stupid Americans just don't understand because you are stupid
No faggot, we disagree with you, there is a difference.
> the government represents the people so it protects the people
>eu governments
> giving a single shit about their people
Don't make me laugh

>>61104256
Pretty much this.

Western EU is turning into a left wing shithole that finds dumb reasons to tax and fine companies. It's also happening in Tech I have noticed as well.

>>61104166
>>61104192
Reading these posts just reminds me the whole world sucks and everyone is fucked in different ways depending on where you're from.

>>61104611
You said they have to follow "special laws" with is, fucking moronic, every single EU company has to follow competition laws no matter how big or small you are.

>>61104615
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox
Hmmm, I wonder what the default search engine could be.

>>61104667
>any government
>giving a shit about their people
nice one

>>61104081
This. In America consumers are considered consumerist slaves on a huge corporate plantation.

No rights, no protection, just wages and taxes.

The big boys move their money outside of the US, so they pay next to zero taxes. Let the goym pay for roads, justice and defence.

Muriturds are such gullbile sheep.

>>61104119
>fine them billions for bullshit to prevent a ban

That doesn't make any sense. Prevent which ban?

Is this going to be another thread full of non billionaire Americans defending the actions of Jewish American billionaires?

>>61104679
Every EU company has to follow competition laws but not all laws apply to all companies, in this particular case Google is abusing it's market dominance which different from normal anti-competitive behavior (price-fixing, for example, which applies to all companies regardless of their market position).

>Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However, dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they are dominant or in separate markets.

>Google has abused this market dominance by giving its own comparison shopping service an illegal advantage.

If this were DuckDuckGo they would not have been fined, because they don't have market dominance and therefore cannot abuse their market dominance.

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>>61104615
>every OS
>every single OS; windows, GNU, android
>same on firefox beta and firefox nightly
>i-it's you, ALL operating systems are conspiring against you!

>>61104685
That image is from back in early 2015, when they did use Yahoo. So, unless you use an outdated version it's gonna be Google.

As additional proof I just downloaded Firefox Beta (because it doesn't need instalation), here are defaults. And no, it doesn't fetch information from your OS nor does it share configuration with an already installed firefox.

>>61104760
It's okay to be a bully until you start acting like a bully.

I just read the actual law that this fine pertains to

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:12008E102

Its so fucking vague that they can basically apply this wherever they want. What a joke.

>>61104673
I thought Silicon Valley were a bunch of leftist cucks, so they'll enjoy forking this fine to fund their favourite immigrants, for whom they advertise every day.

Kek, the ironey!

>>61103900
it's ... what? an advertising company isn't allowed to advertise it's own services now?
surely i'm reading you wrong here

>>61104782
welcome to european regulation
sometimes it's applied appropriately, majority of the time its just people swinging shit around hoping no one dies

>>61104774
It's ok to be a bully because it makes you look cool, but not ok to actually bully.

>>61104203
>unironically supporting marx
Heh.

>>61104789
>all of tech is SV
>ironey
this is what happens when you drop out

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>>61104689
I'm feeling better about it lately

>>61104802
>Google is dominant in general internet search markets throughout the European Economic Area
>Google has abused this market dominance by giving its own comparison shopping service an illegal advantage. It gave prominent placement in its search results only to its own comparison shopping service, whilst demoting rival services. It stifled competition on the merits in comparison shopping markets.

>>61104819
Google is based in Silicon Valley, tho.

You have no argument. I never said "all of tech" that's your strowman.

>>61104525
>my taxes
>implying you'll benefit at all from this while abdul fucks your wife as you're at work

>>61104857
i don't see how promoting you own services over others should be illegal
this isn't a public/government service we're talking about, it's a private advertising company

>>61104371
Then what the fuck is the point of the OP image? It contributes nothing to the thread

>>61104889
Jewgle can follow the law or fuck off.

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>>61104889

>>61104874
This money goes into the EU budget, so member states will pay less. Thanks again cuck.

>>61104889
>this isn't a public/government service we're talking about, it's a private advertising company
It's a private company WITH a monopoly, are you in favor of monopolies stifling competition?

>>61104945
OP is a retard.

>>61104192
this is the new liberal tactic: do a caricature of some teenaged fedoralord saying right-wing things to make the positions sound dumb. don't get me wrong, you can keep doing this all you want. just know that it's transparent and that it doesn't really work beyond showing how butthurt you are about people around here

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>>61104965
>so member states will pay less
>he really thinks he's going to pay less

>>61103871
Well fuck, they should sue amazon for promoting their "shipped and sold by amazon" over other sellers when you search for things on their website.

THE NERVE!

>>61104659
This thread is going to turn into a political flamewar but I completely agree. What kind of frivolous bullshit is this case and how many lawyer-pockets did it line?

Moreover, who the fuck uses Google for shopping?

>>61104745

From doing business in the EU.

>>61104256
Let's just say that american tech giants always do everything to avoid the law and pay the least possible in every state, here in Italy the taxation is way too high (seriously, you can't imagine) but if I have to give away a certain percentage of my earns to run the state with all the services we get back I don't understand why a tech company worth like our GDP pays nothing back from what earns from our money.

Every time we have the chance to get something back we do, and it's always too little. We should just force Ireland to stay in a taxation range

>>61104998

They will as soon as Amazon make enough $$$ from the EU.

>ITT: Retards that think that monopolies are always automatically bad

>>61104963
and this is google's fault?
i don't even get google results on the first page when searching for "search engine" on google search

>>61104176
The fuck are you on about? /g/ has been anti google for the better part of a decade

>>61104149
heard of something called antitrust?

>>61104565
>Subscribe to read
Why even?

>>61104965
>It's a private company WITH a monopoly, are you in favor of monopolies stifling competition?
it's a search engine, there are many adequite alternatives
this isn't something like say, windows, where you have little choice but to use it if something you need to use only supports windows

This is just symptomatic of why EU needs to die a painful and horrifying death.
It is state sponsored theft, just because a company is not based in EU.
Basically racism

>>61105106
monopoly is not about alternatives.

>>61105117
it should be, otherwise what makes it a bad thing?

>>61104772
GNU is not an OS, it's a service pack for Linux.

>>61105160
>android is not an OS, it's a service pack for Linux.
Yeah, okay. But it's still android (or GNU)

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>>61104076
>tfw capital of the EU is the capital of my country

>>61105130
to explain a bit more
if you choose not to use windows, there are a lot of products and services which you become locked out of, due to their dependency on windows
but with google search engine, if you choose not to use that, what are you locked out of? nothing. there's nothing preventing people from using other search engines

>>61105171
Android is a Java virtual machine, bionic and toybox. Android is Linux.

>>61103871
well, us gov fines VW and other EU companies and thats the response. america fired first, its secret trade war going in the background.

Be prepared to see more of that crap going on.

>>61104170
>the biggest trust is in charge of regulating trusts
help me free market

thank you america for the money :^)

t. euro

>>61104076
>So many retarded regulations
Are you a company? if not, why do you care?

>>61104106

mozilla

Sundar Pichai is best known as the mastermind behind the launch of the Chrome browser in 2008. He played a pivotal role in convincing his seniors at Google to launch the browser which in time became the most popular browser on the internet and also led to the launch of the Chrome operating system.

>>61105192

see Oracle vs Android

>>61105192
Okay
>Windows is not an OS, it's a service pack for NT.
Should I just call it NT or Windows/NT?

>>61104965
Not Google's fault that there is no competition.

>>61105296
windows nt is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another kernelspace for win32

>>61104817
>he thinks one can support a dead man
I know english isn't your first language, Pajeet, but try to express yourself properly.

>>61105388
>>61105296
there is a windows nt, and you are using it, but it is just another component of the windows system, made useful by the win32 userspace

>>61105296
Windows/NT 6.x or 10.

>>61105281
>But muh poor businessmen!

>>61103871
EU destroys everything it touches

>>61105396
>unironically supporting Marx
Heh

>>61103871
Google should just give them the finger and not pay it

>>61104772
I'm on the latest nightly build and the default for a new profile is Yahoo.

>>61104989
This is not a liberal tactic nor is it new. Please fuck off to wherever you came from.

To clarify :
Google Search and Google Shopping are two different entities. Owned by the same company, but still.
Of course, a company can advantage its own entities or partners in a business... Except when the company have the monopoly of the market. In that case, its called "abuse of dominant position" or something like that.
The company can't take advantage of that monopoly to do a flavour to its partners and kill the others, it have to stay neutral.
Here, Google is clearly a monopoly, and its clearly using that to try to be more a monopoly.

>>61104632

Why?

It's Google's product they made

You can use any other search engine. They're just better because they worked harder

EU is anticommon sense

Thank God we're leaving

>>61104772

Dead wrong brainlet.

>>61104963

The superior product wins

Plain capitalism

Google isn't a public good ffs

Everyone already uses Bing for porn

>>61105692
>>61106312
EN-UK nightly build defaults to Google.

>>61104192
lol butthurt

>>61105073

This

These brainlets don't know that Bell Labs was due to AT&Ts monopoly

EU is just killing the future as always by preventing Google from doing more hiring for cutting edge products

Besides, Google isn't a monopoly

America leads the way in innovation once again

>>61106382

dmg control pls don't be corrupt just because it werks

>>61106382
go drink jew cum, poojet

>>61105073
Google heavily censures everything it doesn't like. So yeah, it as a monopoly is shit, especially if it remains the only search engine.

>>61104132
How big of a faggot do you have to be to actually LIKE the EU? You must really love sucking on migrant cock.

>>61106432
it has never once been the only search engine

>>61106446
>>61106432
Should have worded it better. What I meant was, if other engines can't sustain themselves and have to shut down and Google is left all alone. Obviously, Microsoft will have bing and FOSS/alternative Google renderers like startpage will still (hopefully) be active since their maintenance is minimal, but I doubt many people will use those. Google is already used by ~85% browsers as a default.

>>61105692
>>61106312
>>61106372
Specifically the Islamic localised version.

>>61106312
>dead wrong
Look at the image again, retard.

>>61106433
When you have UK levels of political retardation, having extra bureaucracy to possibly tangle up their most retarded ideas can only be a benefit

Brexit was absolutely retarded without a demand to also overthrow their entire government. Now you have EU-groomed idiots with absolutely no higher authority to stop them

>>61104345
I use google when I troubleshoot mah gentoo and noobuntu things. Google botnet has the biggest database so it will have results for god knows for what obscure search terms.

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>>61104345
>Who the fuck actually uses Google anymore?
Everyone?

>>61107575
Holy shit, I forgot about ask jeeves.

>>61107575
>forgot to turn off my trp
fug

>>61104017
>now they are becoming corrupt
>now

>>61103871

>2.7BN fine

They'll just pay, err I mean donate, 2.7 million to some politician to make it go away.

>>61107946
It's EU, not France.

>>61104360
It isn't an alien concept, it is just legally different. It isn't intuitive to think of corporations as people.

Also, any corporation worth working for protects its employees and does allow employee input for changing things on a scale that immediately affects employees.

That being said corruption and greed are vastly more influential in decision making which is what really needs to be destroyed. That is difficult to do cleanly though.

Anti-trust regulation is the biggest contributor to tge rise of monopolies

>>61108032
>american education

>>61104965
>This money goes into the EU budget, so member states will pay less. Thanks again cuck.
>he really thinks that money will reach the member states
top cuck

>>61104737
It is quite troubling that Europeans ligitimately believe the EU does not play the corporate favoritism game.
Their protectionism is almost china-tier.

>>61104274
>But Americans usually don't understand that a government is representing the people under its wing
not quite correct, here let me even it up a bit:
>But Europeans usually don't understand that a government is run by individuals who can be bribed and corrupted into passing legislation that is not in favor of the people they represent

>>61104546
>>61104615
Fx's default search engine has been Yahoo for quite a while now.

>>61104106
fuck off nigger cuck
it's a monopoly

>>61108481
See I told you that Americans just can't understand

>>61108487
Well it doesn't seem to be outside US.

>>61108440
Protectionism is literally the exact opposite of corporate favouritism.

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>yuros this desperate for money for the muzzies destroying their nations

LMAO @ the union of yuropeon cuckolds

>>61103871
Yuropoor """counties""" targeting US companies to prop up their failed welfare states yet again.

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This is why nothing successful comes from the failed political union of yurope

>>61108525
Huh, I guess Yahoo just sponsors Firefox in the US, I figured it'd be everywhere like Google did

>>61108547
>>61108562
>>61108568
>defending multibillion jewish corporations

I hope you don't have the nerve to whine about jews from now on

>>61104594
I pick the first one. Google will die.

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>>61108595
t. yurocuck subservient to muzzies

>>61103871
>Garbage coalition fines American tech company for free money

They've been doing this shit to Microsoft for 20+ years. Just a different company now.

>>61103923
In US it would be 'muh private company' meme

>>61104874
>implying that I'm not fucking Abduls wife while he works as a local bus driver and has to do long shifts.

>>61105268
>uding the smiley with a carat nose

I don't think these tech companies pay an appropriate amount of taxes in most of the world compared to the profits they make in said places so this is only fine if not inadequate.

I don't want über gutting a real industry in my country only for some rich fuck in San Fransisco to be able to pay his ridiculous rent every month. I guess google is gutting advertising agencies which I don't particularly like but still it's hard to care about any of these big name tech companies when they're generally evil as fuck and contribute to the destruction of the internet and mass surveillance.

This is pocket change for google

>>61104889
Kys brainlet

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>>61103922
this is actually a good idea

>>61104081

Same thing in the EU.

Ironic the whole thing is motivated by envy and euro-centrism.

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>boiz we running out of money
>just sue the burgers they'll comply because they're scared shitless of losing the market.
I'm more than fine with that.
Google alone could bail numerous euro companies or banks.

>>61111499
Unlike apple, google is sitting on a massive market cap, but not a quarter of a billion in cash.

Google should turn off all its services in the EU for 72 hours, then offer to turn them back on for 2.8bn

>>61103871
They'd better be careful. The EU will be screwed if Google pulls out.

>>61111889
yeah because pulling out on 743 mil market is the best business idea

>>61111867
>>61111889

Why do you think Microsoft payed the fine for pushing IE to Windows OS consumers ? Why did Microsoft implement Windows N for european markets ? Why did google implement the right to be forgotten ? Why does every website displays clear warnings about cookie usage ? Why is google paying this fine ?

When a single market of 510 million people asks for something. they get it.

And this isnt about EU vs US, as they go after EU companies as well.

>>61111867
Well let us see how will that play out:

1. Google pulls out
2. Stock crashes immediately on the market
3. Advertisers get the idea that a company that can't follow rules is not a good investment for their money
4. They pull out of AdSense
5. Bad quarterly results...stock crashes again.
6. Which one will Google choose.

>>61111867
>Google kicks out EU
>EU moves to something else
>Google loses 10% of the market
>Google is hit hard, losing potential customers even outside EU
Google and Microsoft are both playing ball because they know if they start neglecting Europe they'd lose a huge market. Germany alone could create it's own search engine, android/sailfish distro on phones and normalize OpenSUSE or something similar on desktop.
This isn't as much money as they're actually getting FROM Europe. Think about the long run.

I'm actually hoping they ban Microsoft products and make year of desktop Linux happen.

>>61103871
So?

>>61103871
YESSSSSSSSSS!!! Now Apple pls!!!!

>>61112257

Again ? Let them refund 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes first.

>>61104119
Pure bullshit. There is something called competition law that forbids using a monopoly position on one market (search engine) to close competition on another (price comparator).

Euro lawyer here

>>61103871
Google could always deny access to EU parliament. Nothing illegal about that.

>not using startpage

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>google has to pay a fine because Bing and Yahoo can't get their shit together

>>61103945
>seems targeted honestly...
it is actually.

jews are angry that trump won so they're hitting google hard in many different ways to get them to keep trump from winning again.

google has already lost loads of ad revenue due to companies pulling out since their ads were being shown on content they didnt like for whatever reason.

>>61104081
>America, corruption and bribery is rewarded
The strange thing is the anti bribery laws are very strict in the states.

If you operate in the US and your subsidiary in bongo-bongo land bribes some official - the US gov can go after you.

>>61104125
>billions is pocket change
One thing the EU did very right is the fines are a percent of revenue, hence you get fines this huge.
This fine itself was only 5% , it could have been 10% IIRC
Of course if they don't comply they will face a 12m fine per day until they do.


>>61104119
If you want to do business in a country you need to follow their rules, it is pretty simple.
the EU just happens to have more consumer friendly regulations and actually follow through on enforcing them.

>>61112186
>Google and Microsoft are both playing ball because they know if they start neglecting Europe they'd lose a huge market.
Well it is obvious it is better to make $5b in europe than to pull out and make nothing.

Even if the US HQ says for their EU counterparts to pull out they might refuse/say it is illegal.
Its sort of like that on going US federal case involving MS and its data stored in Ireland.
The US gov is telling MS that it must hand over the data stored in Ireland about some user.
Except that MS cannot legally tell its EU office to break the law, so now the US gov is getting pissy demanding the data.
Meanwhile in the EU it would be illegal for MS employees to give up the Data and of course you cannot be fired for not complying with that illegal order..
so we have a mess that has been making its way through the courts for a few years now..

>>61112477
google is paying a fine for its anti competitive behavior.
if bing or yahoo did the same thing they would be fined as well, just much less since the fines are a percent of revenue.
The EU is basically worried about GAFA (google, apple, facebook, amazon) and how much those 4 companies control.

>>61112533
>google is paying a fine for its anti competitive behavior.
because there's no competition?
because yahoo and bing can't get their shit together?

>>61103891

Europe, being a continent full of socialist countries, can't grasp the concept of a free market.

Google makes a service that is better than the competition, people CHOOSE to use it, and Google gets fined for being everyone first choice because it's "unfair" to the competition that their service is better and they get fined.

Also, since the EU is a failing concept and drowning under the costs of its billion refugees, they're going on and fining every American company for billions trying to get as much money as they can. They've basically laid down over $20b in fines to American companies in the past year.

>>61108547
>>61108562
>yuropoors are stealing our money :((((
Everyone is doing that, faggot
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bnp-paribas-settlement-sentencing-idUSKBN0NM41K20150501
By the way, USA is a country internationally know for its retarded laws, pattent trolling and bullshit lawsuit

>>61112513
>jews are angry that trump won so they're hitting google hard in many different ways to get them to keep trump from winning again.
>jews are angry that trump won so they're hitting the search engine that promotes homosexuality, dindu pride worldstarwide, and sjwism every other day
What did they mean by this?

>>61112537
Except that it isn't yahoo and bing.

>“All that the complainants are asking for is that Google restores the level playing field,” said Shivaun Raff, a founder of Foundem, a British comparison shopping site that was the first company to file a complaint against Google.

>It will almost certainly increase pressure on Google to address complaints that the company favors its own products in search results over its rivals’ services.
That was the crux of the complaints that google favors its own products unfairly over its competitors.
EU decided that google does indeed favor its own products/services over competitors and slapped them with a fine.


>>61112609
another person that didn't bother to even skim what the ruling is about.
google cannot use its market dominance to promote its products/services unfairly over competitors.

>>61112609
>t.butthurt American
See >>61112338

This would make sense if google actually had a monopoly on search indexing but they don't by any measure? A better usage of anti-trust would be fining telecom provider companies for owning media outlets.

>>61112609

>Also, since the EU is a failing concept and drowning under the costs of its billion refugees.

citation needed

>they're going on and fining every American company for billions trying to get as much money as they can.

They go after European companies too, see Saint-Gobain, Pilkington, Renault, MAN, Volvo, Daimler, Iveco, etc

Correct me if im wrong, but this is like lets say BMW creating great self driving cars and taking 90% of all car sales in Europe, nothing wrong with that. And then opening a BMW Supermarket chain, also nothing wrong with that, but then everytime you you tell your car to go to the nearest supermarket, it automatically takes you to a BMW store.

You cant use your dominance in one market to catapult you to dominate another.

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Not shitposting, what would the EU do about google not paying? Shutting it down isn't really an option because people would be livid about it. What would happen? Deeply concerned letters arriving at google headquarters every day?

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>>61112882
>This would make sense if google actually had a monopoly on search indexing but they don't
>>61107575
>>61104963

>>61111919

It is when that market fines you billions for people preferring your service.

>>61112961
a monopoly implies 100%, otherwise its not a monopoly its an oligopoly. It's not like a internet provider where consumers are restricted by geography.

Go look up the definition of monopoly because that isn't one, just large market share.

>>61112933
>it automatically takes you to a BMW store.
A better analogy would be imagine if there was a retail store that had 90% of the EU market.
And this store decided to display its own branded products eye-level so that everyone sees it first, every other brand/competing product else got the shitty top or bottom shelves.

>>61112994

i dont think thats the case, because there is no market transition in that example.

Same with microsoft fines, they had total dominance in the OS market, and used it to steamroll the webbrowser market just by having it as default.

>>61103871
Actually thinking they will pay not just accept some law the EU wants pasted

>>61104081
>lobbying
USA truly is the most cucked country of the world.

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>>61112940
>not paying the government
Well assets would be seized and sold off ?
Part of which is the proprietary google search algorithm
I guess the EU could in theory order the google EU employees to pay the fine and continue business.


>>61112986
pic related, google is a monopoly


>>61113026
>i dont think thats the case,
ironic because that was an example used by a business proffessor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/nov/30/google-investigation-eu-british-complaint
except I changed the % to better reflect googles actual dominance

>>61113112

ok true, a retailer using its market dominance for benefiting its position on the manufactoring market is a good example as well.

>>61103871
Don't pay it. Let's see EU get blocked from using google. We'll see who flinches first/

>>61113179

How did that work out in China ?

>>61113112
>Exclusive control

Exclusive means at exclusion of all other firms. Google has enough market share to have market power, it is not a monopoly. If the consumer literally had no other option and was forcibly served google ads it would be violating anti-trust. If the consumer doesn't like google self advertising they are free to use any other provider.

I don't like google for various reasons and yes they have become overly embroiled in too many things but they do not have a monopoly of search indexing and the fine is frivolous. Instead they could nail google on privacy violations if they wanted something tangible.

>>61113112
google doesn't have exclusive control over the search engine market, if that is really even a thing

>>61106344
That doesn't give you any right to do whatever you want with your product in a way that basically kills any possibility of competition, if people use your product.

Remember google has 95% of the search market. It's a de facto monopoly. And this distorts competition in other markets, by taking advantage of their search monopoly to become a monopoly in other markets too.

Maybe Google should be simply banned altogether from Europe. It's not in Europe's strategic interest to depend so much on internet services from North America. It's time for Europe to have its own search engines. If Google was banned from Europe, we would have a multitude of companies entering the market and trying to compete on the search engines market. That would be great for European consumers.

A monopoly is bad, even if the product is good. We never know if we aren't actually missing on a better product, simply because we have no competition.

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>>61113203

>>61113236
>Competitive forces and entry of new firms

The only barrier to search engine provision is advertisement, since the price is free and any economic cost is based off of only time wasted on ads there is barely any cost to google having market power. If google started say charging money per search you would have a point but government intervention is only necessary if the monopoly causes dead weight loss in the economy, in this case its hard to argue google is causing any economic harm.

What the hell are they supposed move their results to the bottom of the search results?

>>61108440
When countries with shit products are dumping their stuff in your market at dumping prices and just kill every producer just based on price and no intellectual property protection, yeah I'd say I'd prefer some degree of protectionism.

On the other hand, look at which cars sell most in the world. It's basically Japan and Europe. And you can't say Europe sells mostly cheap cars, cars are an expensive product. So, this means Europe is competitive on quality of manufacture.

Which the USA, India and China aren't.

Also, when you see the USA lobbying to get access to your market but your know they are planning to dump their genetically modified chicken at low prices, again, I'd rather have the EU block that shit.

I don't give a shit that in your country, consumer protection is basically non-existant, I don't want my country to be flooded with your shitty products. We need some quality checks first, if you want access on our markets.

Same for Google and their ilk. Don't think you can treat consumers here like your Muricun plantation negroes, because we ain't that.

>>61112986
You don't need 100% of the market share to be a monopoly. If that were the case Standard Oil and AT&T would never have been broken up.

>>61113281
they're controlling a market that they're making loads of money from, why would an actual charge to the consumer have anything to do with it? this is stupid.

>>61112609
>USA
>free market
>everyone's a Comcast cuck
>all niggros stand in line for your 15kb internet
>pay up 100 bucks for that

kek

>>61113324
You need 100% market share to a consumer making a decision for there to be economic loss caused by a monopoly. Standard Oil and AT &T were large enough that people living in areas literally had no other option and were forced to pay exclusive prices. With the internet this is a non concern, unless google started somehow restricting access to competitors there is no dead weight loss to the economy.

>>61113354
Because if there is no charge to the consumer there is no loss to the consumer, no loss to society, and no need for intervention.

>>61113236
1. most search providers don't charge money at all
2. google does not and cannot restrict or exclude competitive indexers, due to the very nature of it

just because something is very popular, doesn't by itself means that thing is doing something to restrict others

there is nothing stopping another company from providing /exactly the same/ service as google is

>>61104965
>monopoly

Nigger you have to consciously use Google. All windows computers come with Edge and Bing as default.

>>61104817
>unironically supporting anyone else

>>61112609
>people CHOOSE to use it,
No people use it because its the default option with no other options. Try to get a non-google android

>>61103871
>google constantly advertises pro-EU agendas (look at youtube right now, actually)
>has to pay the EU a metric fuckload of money "using the internet wrong"
Something's fucky. That something being money laundering.

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>>61113355

>>61113281
> in this case its hard to argue google is causing any economic harm.
The argument the EU made was that google was using its dominate position in the market to promote its own products unfairly over its competitors.
The economic harm could be argued that *unless* you advertise your product against google's own, you're going to be on the bottom of the list or page2+ on the search results, but thats just what I could think of in this moment.

>Competitive forces and entry of new firms
Not sure why this is being brought up when my reply was to
>google doesn't have exclusive control over the search engine market, if that is really even a thing
which was all about the semantics of what monopoly means.

This ruling wasn't about google excluding bing and yahoo. Does anyone actually read any news articles any more ?
it was about google promoting its own products (like say google maps or the google shopping/price compare) over its competitors.

>>61113383
>there is nothing stopping another company from providing /exactly the same/ service as google is
Of course there isn't, but google cannot use its dominant position to promote its own products above other peoples.
Of of the companies/people that complained to the EU about google was hot-maps.com it looks like shit from my quick glance, but that doesn't mean that google should steer people towards google maps over hot-maps.com

>>61113486
Because its the last line in the legalist paragraph you posted qualifying the market power definition.

Explain how that causes any economic harm however? Did the EU prove that Googles products were not naturally the most popular, that they were worse enough the consumer suffered? That consumers actually chose these products over competitors simply over page placement?

I fail to see how any of that causes economic harm unless google was peddling its own snake oil in search results.

>>61103871
>Be EU
>Be failing
>Incoming are all illiterate killers
>Outgoing country was the biggest welfare cash cow
>Trump says eat my ass, pay your own defense
>Notice that Google stock hits $1000/share in the U.S.
>Proclaim bogus "fines" to siphon more U.S. wealth into EU pyramid scheme

>>61108722
>Alphabet Inc.
>private

Nigga, you stupid.

>>61113486
>google cannot use its dominant position to promote its own products above other peoples.
please explain specifically how they're "using their dominant position"
because otherwise you're simply saying they aren't allowed to promote their own products, which just makes no sense, every company's site ever promotes their own products, that's practically the point

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>>61103871
"...This could mean going back to the old days of only showing text ads and 10 blue links on page 1" -- Bloomberg Technology

wtf i love the EU now

>>61113530

Yes, im sure 3 billions is a life saver for the second largest economy in the world.

Ferraris for everyone people !

If you think the EU is in the wrong then im sure they have competent lawyers that will clear up the fine.

>>61113530
The nicest irony is that people working at google are leftist SJWs who made websites which support letting more migrants in the West, etc.

Now the EU will take more money from Google to pay for the migrants' accommodation. Time for Google to put its money where its mouth is. If you think migrants are good, then pay up to support them.

kekeekek

>>61113548
>every company's site ever promotes their own products, that's practically the point
except that google in this sense is not a company site, but a search engine.
And the EU found them to be promoting their own products above their competitors.

Google was one of the companies supporting the Microsoft vs EU fines for using their OS dominance to assure browser dominance. Meaning that Internet Explorer got a unfair advantage over Chrome.

Guess they forgot how that worked.

>>61113647
Yup, this is payback time. Who do you think reported this case to the EU? Microsoft.

Microsoft is probably hoping to get more market share for bing or maybe even make a dent in android's market share.

so many billions, to fund the migrants, the EU is pretty smart they figured out a way to finance more migrants without asking member countries to support it, now any EU citizen can't say "but muh moneys" anymore

I hope they destroy Amazon next and institute gnu/linux & BSD as the main new common operating system

>>61113610
>except that google in this sense is not a company site, but a search engine.
it is a company site, a search engine is their main product
>And the EU found them to be promoting their own products above their competitors.
SO
FUCKING
WHAT

>>61113676
>maybe even make a dent in android's market share.
using what? they haven't had a phone os in ages

>>61103871
Why would they pay this fine anyway?

What could the EU do to stop them? Continent wide firewall?

Good luck getting support on that.

>>61113731
Doesn't Win10 already work on phones? Wasn't that the whole point of Continuum, or w/e their "one system, many devices" shit is called?

>>61113779
They abandoned it. It's garbage.

>>61113610
>promoting their own products above their competitors.
hold up, who promotes other people's products over their own?

if i searched for a product on google, i'd get google results and a bunch of other companies' results, right? lets say a result was on newegg
if i searched for the same product on newegg's own site, would i get other companies results? no? is that not worse? why not?

>>61113763
They will apply a fine of 5% of their entire company (Alphabet) revenue per day.

If they refuse that too, the EU will take them to court and the court will decide. They could shut down Google's operations, if necessary.

>>61113426
>with no other options.

There are tons of options, actually. They CHOOSE not to use them.

>>61113426
>Try to get a non-google android

>Try to get a product that isn't owned by the people who own it

What fucking retarded point were you trying to make here?

Maybe you Eurocucks should go fine Mercedes-Benz because you can't buy a non-Mercedes-Benz C63.

>>61113799
Somebody just leaked Continuum 2.0.

https://youtu.be/0CbquTL7dus

It doesn't seem like they killed it.

https://www.onmsft.com/news/new-video-shows-continuum-2-0-running-on-leaked-internal-w10m-build-in-action

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/020617/microsoft-windows-phone-is-not-dead-yet-phones-spotted.html

Rumours about the Surface phone having a projector:
https://www.onmsft.com/news/rumor-microsofts-new-phone-called-surface-mobile-has-projector-supports-surface-pen

They worked on a new shell for it, since they launched it (Composable Shell)
https://mspoweruser.com/windows-phones-continuum-will-soon-able-replace-laptop/

>>61113811
>why not?
Because you have no expectation that NewEgg will do that, whereas Google search promotes itself as an honest broker.
You don't ask Google for recommendations based on who has paid them the most; you ask for recommendations based on product quality.

>>61113592
I thought EU was the largest of all saw it in some shitty statistics some time ago

>>61113426
>Try to get a non-google android
What does that have to do with being able to use other search engines?

>>61107575
>ask jeeves still hanging on
Genuinely impressed.

>>61104106
They 100% have a monopoly on online advertising

>>61104345
>S T A R T P A G E D O T C O M
fuck no. tinfoil headed faggots even went on alex jones's show is how retarded they are

>>61114436
ask.com bubbled back up in the late 00's and early 10's.

>>61114501
They have more of a monopoly on video steaming. I refuse to use any Google service because of their irritating bias and privacy invasion. However, I support the free market.

>>61107575
No but really.
Google has a monopoly because everything else fucking sucks so hard.
It just isnt googles fault if bings shit.

>>61103871
>use alternative search engines
>miss all the drama
feels good man

>>61103871
Oh no, a tax writeoff.

>>61113676
>Microsoft is probably hoping to get more market share for bing
Now that'd would be crazy.

>>61114634
Monopolies are pretty much the opposite of the free market and free market can't be free without regulations.

>>61104214
>how does google make money if everything is free?
They double jew everyone. They make a profile of you habits that they sell to the advertisers so they can display "relevant ads"™ (By Google ®) based on your profile.

>also youtube imagine all those hard drives and bandwidth required
Yeah, but everything (or at least most) is custom built so is not as expensive as you might think
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project

>how do they host the play store and gmail and chrome and chromeos????
See above

>>61112961
I'm actually surprised it's share in the US is so low.

>he doesn't know The Jew only gives money to The Other Jew, hence no actual money is being charged
Fucking retards I swear.

>>61114929
>Fucking retards
>jews here, jews there, jews jews everywhere.
you really shouldnt be calling anybody retard.

>>61114929
It's not like 3 billion are serious money for either side.

>>61104017
By the time Facebook took off, Google had become too big to fail.

Now they're just dipping their hands in everything they can along with Amazon, media outlets and elections, strangleholds on markets, conspiring with the government for confidential information gathering, etc

>>61104017
>soon Google will die
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>61104677
Based anon

>>61104565
Literally behind paywall. Good fucking job

>>61104889
Lolbertarian pls

>>61106431
>>61106413
>literally 0 arguments against bell labs
Also >>61106382 is kinda retarded as well
Monopolies have an inherent need to develop new fundamental technologies so that when the next thing comes they will continue.
Google doesn't do a great job of this but Apple is 10x worse than Ma bell ever was, and is crucial in supporting the censoring of China as well as doing fuck all to develop anything with fundamental technologies

>>61114693
Bing search is fine. The video search, for example, is way better than google's.

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>>61112609

Fine of 5% daily gross if they don't comply.
This was just the appetizer. Waiting for android and adsense cases.

>all these amerifats actually coming out in defense of google
Why? What do you have to gain from a google monopoly? This is the sort of shit I'd expect from tech illiterate normalfags, not /g/.

>>61115716
>Waiting for android and adsense cases.
For what? Besides, I doubt Android qualifies for a monopoly.

>>61115723
Because /g/ isn't /v/ with more graphic cards and phones. Oh wait.

> Hey the product you offer is too good
> We're going to sue you until you bring yourself down to your competitors level
Nice

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>mfw a corporate cocksucker sucks corporate cock near me
i cannot even fathom the idea of rushing to the defense of something like google, they do not care about me and are actively working against my best interests, yet people here would actually defend them for free to other people

is this what being brainwashed is like?

>>61115781
>if someone has a majority of the market share they are the best
Yeah, all those people who pay out the ass for data capped slow internet packages because there is only one ISP with a 100% market share in their location should just be happy that they get such a good product from the best provider. Fuck off lolbertarian.

>>61115789
People always identified themselves with the shit they consumed and the products they bought, now even more so, so it's hardly surprising.

>>61115658
Yeah I use that for porn.

>>61115789
Unfortunately /g/ is nothing more than /v/ cross-boarder toddlers now. Most people here actually run Windows and cite "gaming" as a reason for it, it's embarrassing.

>>61115805
Literally nobody forces you to use Google. You can go into your browser setting and change the default to DDG or Bing
ISPS are an entirely different game and some people ARE locked into using one of the big 3 because of coverage.

>>61115826
Nobody forces you to use an ISP either.

The amount of google hate on here is astounding, just goes to show how overrun /g/ is with M$ shills.
No we're not going to run Windows 10 no matter how much you shills advertise it, I'm going to continue using my Chromebook Pixel whether you like it or now, fucking pieces of shits.

>>61104857

What a dumb fucking law. Google is not the only search engine available. If eurocucks decide they want to use google, they better damn well be ready for them to shove chrome and shit down their throats.

>>61115860
>getting cucked by corporations
>calls the people who cockblock the corporations cucks
I get that Murican education has its issues and challenges but come on, anon.

Yes americlaps good very good protect those multi billion dollar companies they surley meed your help

>>61104774
No, it's OK to try to be a bully if you are to weak to actually bully anyone.

>>61103871
Why would you rejoice about this? out of all the "evil" big corps Google is the least harmful.
90s MS was far, far worse, and no one ever did anything about it.

>>61106574
>startpage
But if google puts their results first so will startpage, it only anonymizes you (think VPN).

The thing with all these people defending Google here is they don't actually believe what they're saying. Rather, they know that defending corporations is associated with "the right", and because they desperately do not want to be seen as a "leftist" (as being a leftist is currently popular, and 4chan is at its core a contrarian website), they rush to the defense of Google regardless of whether or not they actually believe any of what they're saying.

>>61115965
t. sundar pichai

>>61111840
Probably not even one big bank (see Deutche bank)

The problem with Google Shopping is that a few years ago it was a very useful tool to find the price of a product globally.
Now it's just one big shit with only (((Sponsored(tm)))) results.
Honestly google should do the same bullshit with their general search system and kill themselves already.

>>61115965
EU slapped Applel and MS too. Don't remember whether they did something against Amazon but it's likely.

In either case they went way too soft on them though. The fines are supposed to hurt enough to punish illegal behaviour and prevent from making it look like an attractive option for the future. 3 billions are a write off.

>implying they'll pay it
Remember when Apple got fined a gorillion dollars and nobody did shit when they didn't pay it?
The same thing will happen again.

>>61116045
Appeals take time.

>American company once again has to pay the welfare for yurop

Pathetic.

>>61113763
I see /g/ can only understand computers.
>google has no assets in EU
OK

Can someone explain to this brainlet what would happen if Google doesn't pay?

>>61115658
Yeah but Microsoft is hated universally by everyone and Google has been a household name for years, whereas a lot of people don't even know or remember what Bing is.

>>61116123
Nothing. Google is more powerful than the failed project called the EU.

>>61116112
It's nothing for EU. It's nothing for Jewgle. Nobody cares.

I don't understand why you care about it. Do you have their stocks or what?

>>61112742
>That was the crux of the complaints that google favors its own products unfairly over its competitors.
Except that wasn't the complaint. The complaint was that Google's shopping comparison service that just directs you to shopping sites got listed at the top of results and other shitty sites that do the exact same thing but 50 times worse on an ad-riddled page with nothing but 5-layer referral links complained Google was putting direct links to products on Amazon/Best Buy/Local Eurotrash Store #7 ahead of their shitty comparison sites.

The commissioner has gone on multiple international news stations for interviews regarding the ruling and has not been able to justify any damage done to consumers here. This is a terrible thing for consumers and means the government is literally telling Google that instead of putting the most relevant links (links to where to actually buy this shit) on the front page they have to put links to sites that are just going to have those same links on them.

It's like the government saying Google is being anticompetitive against Bing because they don't have links to Bing search result pages on their search results.

>>61116123
They take assets that google has in Europe.
Then what? Google shuts Europe off? There are many alternatives people will start using them. Google just has to take it like a bitch (after years of appeals).

>>61116123
Probably nothing. Some dipshit in parliament would stir up some noise and ultimately do nothing but waste more taxpayer money on more hearings. Meanwhile Google will just carry on with business as normal paying some lawfirm to worry about it for them.
At worst they're going to push this off for 10-20 years before they even have to consider paying.

>>61116198
I don't even care about the pretext, they pay no taxes for what money they make here, now they will at least pay a small fraction of what they owe us.

>>61116241
That's not how it works. EU isn't run by corporations like Murica, the appeal process would take 5 years max. If they don't pay, their assets will be taken and their shit blocked from the biggest market. Though obviously they aren't crazy enough to risk it for pocket money.

To make it interesting, EU would need to have some balls and demand 30+ billions.

>>61116241
You don't get it at all, do you?
If they don't manage to appeal it, they will either pay it, or EU will just confiscate assets with the same value as the fine.
Nobody cares what Google chooses, end result will be the same.

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>>61116255

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Why is it that google a pajeet advertising company is always defended here by americucks, while Apple, an actual american tech company would be shat on here by americucks for anti-trust?

is everyone here a pajeet?

>>61116298
>thinking companies have nationalities
Google got idiots defending them here because they are poorfags and use their poorfag shit like Android.

>>61116288
>make a lot of money in EU
>pay no taxes on that profit by abusing the law
>pay a very small percent of the taxes you should pay
Oh noes, poor Google is going to go bankrupt, they paid 1% of the taxes they should pay instead of 0%.

I wonder who is the jew swindling everybody in this case.

>>61116191
>$3bn is nothing

Even for a multi-billion dollar corporation, that's nothing to scoff at.

>>61116429
They have more in assets in EU.
Either give the money or EU takes the money.
But, all in all, why should we care?
What does it change for you?

>>61116298

Because Eurocucks are socialist retards who fine American companies for being better than the competition so they can gather up more money for their welfare state to pay out their newest 3 million refugees.

It's no coincidence that this flood of over 8 billion+ dollar fines all happened immediately after your refugee crisis and Brexit reality when they were once or twice a decade before.

>>61103871

Well someone has to pay for this months 800,000 refugees and it sure won't be Germany.

>>61116508
t.brainlet

>>61111889
Nah, they would be alright, Chinks are doing fine without Google, google on the otherhand would take a big hit if they lose Europe.

>>61115723
yeah this thread is like 90% reddit, I was expecting better from you /g/

>>61113426
oh you mean the amazon fire phone...those sure flew off the shelves

>>61115723
What does anybody have to gain from EU getting more money? The real ideal outcome for this scenario is a long legal battle that fucks them both over.

>>61116874
They sold them at a loss for 50€ and nobody wants them. My three year old tablet is better.

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>it's a "people use the government to force companies to adhere to their ethics instead of just refusing to give that company money" episode

>>61113426
huh? you mean anything that isn't a Nexus? or are we talking about play store access + google apps

lmao look at all these edgelords licking Google's boots

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>>61104017
>soon Google will die.

>>61112609

can you grasp the concept of abuse of market dominance and monopoly?

How do I escape the search botnet? I don't trust duck duck go or startpage, because they're both businesses out to make money off your data/ads, and they use google results. Searx is open source and you can easily host your own instance, but it's still just a metasearch engine, and gets all its results from other search engines, mainly google and yahoo. Has anyone tried to make an actual open source search engine?