European Union votes in favour of dismantling Google under anti-trust laws

 
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Google is about to have its wings clipped – or at least it is if the European Parliament gets its way.

Following a vote today, the EU says it will “unbundle search engines from commercial services,” which if it stays true to its word, means that Google will be forced to break up into smaller, separate parts.

The good news for Google is that the vote is pretty much unenforceable and that things will continue exactly as they are.

The resolution was proposed by German MEP Andreas Schwab and his Spanish colleague Ramon Tremosa and was passed by 458 votes to 173 with 23 abstentions.

German MEP Evelyne Gebhardt said: 'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

Despite these stern words, the Parliament doesn't have the power to be able to dismantle Google itself and must now try to get the Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, to wade in and do its bidding.

The Commission has previously had a bit of a poke around in the search engine sector, but until now has been reluctant to take any significant action.

The previous Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, managed to avoid the taking of sanctions against Google, and it remains to be seen if the new Commissioner will go further.

Don’t bet on Google being ripped apart as a result of this vote any time in the near future.

Or ever, for that matter.

I'm so happy I have a quasi-Federal super-state watching over me. It's so nice to know that the brilliantly progressive Germans and French are looking out for my interests, and stopping Google from harming consumers; it makes so much sense to dismantle it and create more competition among search engines!

Thank God for our paternalistic Eurocrat overlords.


 
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.


 
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.
Bing is better for porn.


 
 
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.
Bing is better for porn.
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.
Bing is better for porn.
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Chaika does not approve.
Chaika should see what they have on her before disapproving.


 
 
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.
Bing is better for porn.
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Chaika does not approve.
Chaika should see what they have on her before disapproving.
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.

IIRC Bing is actually just as good, but Google is just more of a household name so people use it more. Still an American service though so it's not "directly supporting European innovation".


 
 
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'European policymakers must directly support European innovation, and particularly new start-ups, in order to foster their potential."

I mean, I get where they are coming from but there hasn't been a single search engine that has even come close to being as good as Google.

IIRC Bing is actually just as good, but Google is just more of a household name so people use it more. Still an American service though so it's not "directly supporting European innovation".
Ehhh

This is just personal preference, but I'm not really a fan of bing >.> It's not bad but it's just not quite... there...

Indeed, I don't like that sort of thinking though <.<
It's slowing down globalisation >.>


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The good news for Google is that the vote is pretty much unenforceable and that things will continue exactly as they are.

Aaah, Europe in action at it's finest.

A bit off-topic, Have they enforced the change to ban roaming charges across the EU yet?


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EU is retarded if they think that they have the power to dismantle a corporation based and under jurisdiction of the U.S.


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Pretty sure this is just a PR move so Europoors think that their governments are doing something.


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Pretty sure this is just a PR move so Europoors think that their governments are doing something.

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EU is retarded if they think that they have the power to dismantle a corporation based and under jurisdiction of the U.S.
>Google has subsidiaries
>subsidiaries and servers with EU data on EU soil
>subsidiaries that count as data controllers under the new Privacy Regulation
>subsidiaries and servers that are subject to EU law

Don't be so quick of making the mistake that just because Google is an American company, it is untouchable anywhere else. The fact that Google can be forced to amend their service in a way that they have to include the right to be forgotten in the EU, and that the company is actually willingly co-operating with these rulings and legislation, only furthers that point.

Of course, they can't simply choose to dismantle Google, which isn't what they're after in the first place, but it is entirely possible for them to severely dictate how Google can provide its service within the EU. And going by past copyright, privacy and policy cases affecting Google, and more importantly the company's compliance with EU legislation and court rulings, I wouldn't say that Google is just going to ignore this.
The only Google service that everyone uses is the Google search engine.

EU can't change anything, people will continue to use it.


 
 
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EU is retarded if they think that they have the power to dismantle a corporation based and under jurisdiction of the U.S.
>Google has subsidiaries
>subsidiaries and servers with EU data on EU soil
>subsidiaries that count as data controllers under the new Privacy Regulation
>subsidiaries and servers that are subject to EU law

Don't be so quick of making the mistake that just because Google is an American company, it is untouchable anywhere else. The fact that Google can be forced to amend their service in a way that they have to include the right to be forgotten in the EU, and that the company is actually willingly co-operating with these rulings and legislation, only furthers that point.

Of course, they can't simply choose to dismantle Google, which isn't what they're after in the first place, but it is entirely possible for them to severely dictate how Google can provide its service within the EU. And going by past copyright, privacy and policy cases affecting Google, and more importantly the company's compliance with EU legislation and court rulings, I wouldn't say that Google is just going to ignore this.
The only Google service that everyone uses is the Google search engine.

EU can't change anything, people will continue to use it.
I'm not really sure how that is relevant to what I said. Google isn't going to die, nor is that what the EU wants. I merely commented on the misconception that Google is untouchable and will just be able to ignore EU legislation because it's an American company. It doesn't work like that and Google has shown several times before that they are not too keen on jeopardizing their EU market.

Just thought I'd add in, IIRC Google's operations are in the EU are based in Ireland, and as such are subject to EU rulings (if we see any as Flee has pointed out).

Google US' operations in California(?) will run as normal.


 
 
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