The tension between Google and the E.U. continues to persist, now there is talk of a new law in France that would force Google to reveal its secret sauce, in other words show us how your algorithm works. If you think of Google as being dominant in the U.S. it is far greater when it comes to search in Europe. While making up 68% of search volume is the U.S. according to one report, it handles 90 percent in Europe.
From Foss Bytes:
Google’s secret search algorithm, the heart of Google, may not be a secret anymore. A law is under consideration in France that would force the search engine giant to reveal its most secret treasure- Google’s search algorithm. This would be one of the toughest supervisory over the internet company. The Financial Times has reported that the French government is passing a law in the French senate that could possibly force Google to publish the details of the method it uses to rank websites and show search results.
The European Union has been harsher towards Google and is going to accuse the search engine of illegally favoring its own services. This move could harm Google big time and Google, obviously, isn’t happy.
Read the full article on FossBytes
It would seem that Google would leave France before ever allowing them access to their algorithm and intellectual property
yet another reason europe sucks
monopolists suck, not Europe … it’s time to make companies like Google respect anti-monopolistic rules …
From a business environment standpoint, you could not be more right. Asia and North America are much better sandboxes to play in.
Yeah, you like places where you can do whatever you want, no matter how this impact people, democracy or the environment … it’s really self-commenting …
here we go with another fan of wild capitalism, with no rules … shameful …
Hello Ray,
Google is attracting all the wrong attention. The kind of attention and microscopic investigating that has Toppled Past Monopolies. We feel there is a 90% probability that Google will be broken into pieces. JAS 4/15/15
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal tiger)
Well it’s not really a monopoly when the simple solution is don’t use Google just go to Bing Yahoo Yandex Duck Duck Go. Bye bye monopoly.
It looks you have no idea what monopolistic abuses are … get informed before talking …
Maybe you should because there’s nothing monopolistic about them doing whatever they want with their website. I’m not talking about Google’s other products but as far as using Google.com no that’s not a monopoly when somebody prefers you over everybody else no there’s not one fucking person that has to go to Google.com nice try. And Google will continue to kick everybody’s ass because that’s what they do.
Mr anonymous,
You simply don’t know what are you talking about, or, as I think, you are a Google cheerleader … pathetic …
Monopolies and trusts look out, your time is coming … lobbying governments and lawmakers, paying to get ad personam laws won’t save you from people …
http://www.domaininvesting.com/will-there-be-trust-issues-without-urls-showing-in-google-mobile/
And with this it’s all for me on this here.