EU sued MS to protect EU software companies
EU sued Intel to protect AMD (didn’t help)
Wonder who they are protecting from Google?
Zathras knows symmetry!
Google has cash, EU, not so much.
EU try to make even; make everybody broke!
There simply isn’t a Google-like search vehicle in Europe....or for that matter...Germany. I live in Germany and can attest to the fact that Google could turn off their service within Germany, and it’d be total chaos. I suspect what they want is some control over the search results and impact upon what comes up.
Google overhead imagery shocked the heck out the Germans a decade ago....they just weren’t willing to accept that much information. I suspect there’s some fear over what new toys or abilities that Goggle might demonstrate in the future.