European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
This is a ridiculous figure, how can they come up with a figure more than 2x times the amount of the previous record (for Intel&#x27;s egregious behavior) for deciding what content goes on their own platform, which wasn&#x27;t previously known to be illegal?<p>What do they want to force Google to do now, prohibit being able to advertise on their own platform? give their competitors priority placement for free? How many rival comparison services do they need to show now? There could be hundreds popping up to take advantage of the forced exposure with scam and ad-ridden pages. Does Google have to show them all? Who decides? Will this ruling extend to all other relevant content Google shows around Search results?<p>Guess we&#x27;ll have to see, but this ruling could force Google to provide a degraded Customer experience which I guess is one way to make their Services less appealing and allow competition to catch up.