European Parliament reportedly wants Google to be broken up

Kent Sharkey

Gigaom[^]:

The European Parliament is about to call for the “unbundling” of Google’s search business from the rest of its operations, as one potential way to challenge the company’s market dominance.

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

PIEBALDconsult

:cough: fuck you :cough:

Bert Mitton

Strange. Usually the go for the wallet instead.

Marc Clifton

Google should just buy the EU. ;) Marc

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Ron Anders

This is America. You really want to try n' dominate a bunch a crazy red necks yet again? Shesh..

FIorian Schneidereit

Marc Clifton wrote:

Google should just buy the EU.

That's not necessary, it would be just a waste of money. Politicians are already only marionettes in the game. They'll just have to threaten them publicly with something like how many people they're going to lay off when they break ranks, and that's it.

Lost User

If I were in charge of Google, I'd just pull the plug on the EU for a month.. they can always use Yahoo for search X|

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den2k88

Clever move. I can see two outcomes: 1) Google pulls the plug: users panic for a week then find alternatives. EU has plausible reasons to build its own Internet resources and increse network isolations other than NSA fluck up; 2) Google backs down and splits: this will actually give way to other (EU) companies to grab some market share, literally paying EU to not isolate more the network. In the first case we would se a Russification of EU, with more and more services localized (see Vkontakte and Xing compared to Facebook and Linkedin) and less money gained in EU but taxed elsewere. In the latter Google would show weakness, exploitable for further "requests" from EU whilst reducing its presence in EU market.

KarstenK

The EU politicans wanted some years ago a law (or regulation) how a gherkin is bend. These folks are egoistic, hypocritical and corrupt. This EU is doomed to fail. The consequences could be epochical turmoil like "The Fall of the Roman Empire" :((

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