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Old 11-27-2014, 09:55 AM   #56
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Looks like the European Parliament has voted to recommend that Google be broken up (see story here). Or at least that would be the effect - the resolution relates more generally to search engines, but Google is clearly the target as it is the largest in Europe.

As the story notes, the Parliament can't make any binding rules, so this vote serves as more of a recommendation to those in power in each member country. Given that, it's hard to see Google complying with an order to breakup its business from any smaller countries in the EU, rather than just drop out of that country.

On the plus side, they also voted to support net neutrality and a ban on roaming charges, so there's that at least. Still seems to stupid to, across the board, recommend unbundling all search engines from their owners - like a giant baby swinging a sledgehammer.
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