Google “dominated” negotiations with the European Union over...
Google “dominated” negotiations with the European Union over claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive search bias, said Scott Cleland, of Precursor Watch, in an email blast Friday. The EU made 18 concessions to Google, while the company made only…
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four to the EU, Cleland wrote. “Given that most everyone would agree that the sovereign European Union is vastly more powerful than corporate Google, and given that the EU’s competition law and enforcement process is well-known to be very tough, a logical conclusion from the upside-down outcome of these negotiations is that Google successfully bamboozled the EU competition authorities.” Google did not respond to our query.