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  • EU hammers Google with record $2.7 billion antitrust fine for illegal search manipulation

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    cropr said:
    ike17055 said:
    The European elites continue to demonstrate that they have no real understanding of free markets and competition. 
    The American elites continue to think that the American law is applicable all over the world and that their view on anticompetitive behaviour is by definition the correct one.
    As long as European "leaders" expect us to pick up the tab for their own defense, they could at least not bite the hand that feeds their government extravagence for everything under the socialist sun -- except the most basic government responsibility: defense. 
    williamlondontallest skilbshank

  • EU hammers Google with record $2.7 billion antitrust fine for illegal search manipulation

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    wizard69 said:
    This is a prime example of the EU's obsession with successful American companies.    Frankly i think the goverment here in the USA needs to take a more active roll in adressing this harassment.   
    Google's success, and that of others, is in part how we can afford to continue paying the bulk of Europe's defense, while they sneer at us and laugh publicly at American admonishment for Europe's broken financial committment-- to itself. Trump gets a lot wrong, but he is right on this: if Europe wants to complain about how they cannot "depend" on America, perhaps they should stop shortchanging their own responsibilities, and quit always trying to play the U.S. for chumps, and begin to act like allies are supposed to act for once. 
    williamlondon

  • EU hammers Google with record $2.7 billion antitrust fine for illegal search manipulation

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    hammerd2 said:
    Or to put it another way, the EU has stomped on some blatantly anti-competitive activities and Google have to pay something for having broke the law. If they don't like the laws of a territory they can always stop trading there.

    Back a few years when Google used to rank your website by relevance to the search (remember those days ?) our website was top of almost every possible relevant search. After 6 months of being bombarded by and rebuffing telephone calls from Google "suggesting" we started paying for Adwords we suddenly, overnight, fell off a cliff to the extent that even I couldn't find our entry using the same search words.

    Miraculously within hours of signing up for Adwords, guess what ? Yes, we were back at the top again.

    So I don't have a problem with the fine.
    So i guess we can expect you not to b*tch when your ad rates go up, to pay the fine.  
    williamlondonanton zuykovbshank

  • EU hammers Google with record $2.7 billion antitrust fine for illegal search manipulation

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    The European elites continue to demonstrate that they have no real understanding of free markets and competition. 
    williamlondonSpamSandwichbshankjbdragonanton zuykov