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Google's flagship product is the Google search engine, which provides search results to consumers, who pay for the service with their data. anyone else finding the plainness of that last sentence to be staggering? ...
I kind of want google to shut off all services for a week in EU countries. No search, images, maps, gmail, or android services. I wonder how quickly the eu will sober up.
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Pretty sure that's what Google Product Search used to do. They ended up having to change it because the resulting quality of those listings was terrible. See https://commerce.googleblog.com/2012/05/building-better-shop... Maybe if they tried again they could do better this time; I'm a little skeptical though.
Wow, the screenshot in the post is like a parody. (And that's the "new Google Shopping experience"). https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nw0uS-CN17o/T8cd822KTBI/AAAAAAAAA...
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The answer to your question is given by the EC decision: > There are also high barriers to entry in these markets, in part because of network effects: the more consumers use a search engine, the more attractive it becomes to advertisers. The profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers. Similarly, the data a search engine gathers about consumers can in turn be used to improve results. Simply put,…
Sounds like they're punishing commercial success, i.e. the goals of most public corporations. Search has been Google's core competency since their inception, they were much smaller than the existing Search engines when they started out but were able to create a better product that users preferred and since that time they've been able to amass a wealth of knowledge, experience and resources. Of course any company is g…
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Yes, the cookie notices are a bad implementation of a good policy, (informing users that they're being tracked.)
Cookies don't imply tracking - that is just one use of them.
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Why are you using Google then? Use a Service you can trust or you believe has your best interests at heart.
The answer to your question is given by the EC decision: > There are also high barriers to entry in these markets, in part because of network effects: the more consumers use a search engine, the more attractive it becomes to advertisers. The profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers. Similarly, the data a search engine gathers about consumers can in turn be used to improve results. Simply put,…
Wut?
I was looking at the highlights of the EU competition commission[0]. Is it just me or is there a theme (with a few exceptions) that runs something like:
+ Large US company XXX gets anti-trust fine.
+ EU company gets state aid approved.
+ rinse and repeat
As an EU citizen, it's nice that the Commission is working hard to reduce my tax bill but I do wonder if this is entirely neutral.
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Yes, the cookie notices are a bad implementation of a good policy, (informing users that they're being tracked.)
Cookies don't imply tracking - that is just one use of them.
See http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...
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> I'll probably get down voted Damn, I hate this trend of making you comments appear more controversial. > What's next? You really should not argue this point. We need to stop "big" companies doing "anti-consumer" practices. The reason why those terms are in quotation marks is because when you are discussing antitrust and monopoly laws those terms are not well defined. You should only look at these rulings per-case b…
>>Damn, I hate this trend of making you comments appear more controversial. I take it as a way of saying "this will probably be a controversial opinion here, but..." which is totally fine.
I might be in a minority here and I'll probably get down voted but this result scares me... and I used to be CTO one of those competing price comparison sites that show up lower in the results so if anyone should agree it should be me. While it made me angry when Google put their results above ours, I never questioned that they had a right to do that. It is their website. They are not a utility. At what point does a…
> this result scares me [...] I never questioned that they had a right to do that. It is their website Are you serious? By this logic Microsoft could do whatever they wanted with Windows. Yes, when you're big enough to absolutely dominate a market you can't just use that to make rules that kick out everyone else.