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BRUSSELS ? The European Union?s antitrust chief on Wednesday sought to bring the American Internet giant Google to heel, accusing the company of abusing its dominance in web searches to the detriment of competitors.
It is the first time that antitrust charges have been brought against Google, and the action raises pressure on the company to address complaints that a previous European commissioner allowed to play out for five years without resolution.
Looking ahead to another big digital market that Google dominates, the antitrust official, Margrethe Vestager, opened an investigation into whether the company?s Android smartphone software forces phone makers to favor Google?s own services and applications over competitors? ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/bu...case.html?_r=0
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The SERPs you see are really the answer to this accusation and the Google new front-line defense -- the "we done nuffin'" defense concluding: "we aint dat smart!"
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Google's lawyers may counsel a partial retreat and dog-house self flagellation of the search giant until this blows over. To come out swinging will only have the EU and possibly other governmental agencies (US FCC and DOJ) aggressively set out to cut off Google's balls (I mean water
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