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Except you know that won't make them happy. Take the shopping example. They had a product that benefited consumers and businesses, but in the middle, a very tiny slice of the population (which who were in the business of making product comparison sites) were losing, and they cost Googling billions. The EU didn't even tell Google /what/ the solution was, because there isn't any, they just blindly asked them to change things.

That shows you that it's not about "respecting" regulation. It's about shoving it in their face and forcing them to comply.




Google has a monopoly on search, this means if I do a search say "best programming language/framework for X" and if Google hijacks this and put Google products on top then they are abusing the monopoly. It sucks for them they can't abuse it and they can't push their products and make more money.

I think the idea is simple, do web search, don't promote your video,maps, lanugages,services , don't add special code for Google products/services , and stop prompting people to install Chrome if they search with other browsers.




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