[tcrlaf]

Broke just before the US Markets closed

"Such a move would be “very bad news” for Google, said Ioannis Lianos, a Professor of Global Competition Law at University College London"

DUH.. Ya' think?

[skeeter]

Time to call in those chits from the Obama Administration.

[SeekAndFind]

Yep, these Europeans are showing their socialistic colors.

What they can’t achieve through technological and business competition, they use the POWER OF GOVERNMENT to attain.

WON’T WORK. The consumer loses in the end.

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[RayChuang88]

I don't think the case against Google will have as much effect on the market as the case against Microsoft in the late 1990's, because Microsoft in the late 1990's had a FAR larger influence on the computer market than Google does now.

Besides, there are true competitors for many Google products: Bing, Yandex and Weibo for search, Apple Maps, MapQuest, and others for mapping, and Yahoo! Mail and Outlook Mail for web-based email.

[InterceptPoint]

[Zathras]

EU sued MS to protect EU software companies
EU sued Intel to protect AMD (didn’t help)
Wonder who they are protecting from Google?

[StoneWall Brigade]

Yikes

[Mamzelle]

rotsa ruck, EU

[kingu]

This is, probably, the most stupid case I've ever heard. If you go to Yahoo and ask a question about directions, it will link to Yahoo Maps. If you go to Bing and ask the same question, it links to Bing Maps. If you ask Siri the question, it goes to Apple maps. Why on earth would it be different when you ask Google for the same information?

The entire theory that because you're successful, provide needed services, that you suddenly become a free advertising vehicle for every other website is just... Well, I guess that's just liberal ideology taken to the next step: success breeds penalties.