Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask
The EU has taken the position that all of these vertical specific search engines are industries that should be treated separately from &quot;general search&quot;.  I think this is faulty as
- from a customer perspective, I just want an answer to my question regardless of the vertical
- from an industry perspective every small competitor is of course going to complain that big bad X is taking their business<p>So we just end up with arbitrary enforcement of the rules based on which companies the EU is angriest at.