Certainly on the advertising front, both the EU and the US have supported more restrictions about what a publication can do versus its editorial content. Google ultimately is a publication, a guide to the web. Like a newspaper, it can publish whatever it wants. That\u2019s been supported in the US; we\u2019ll see if the EU takes a different view. More important, we\u2019ll see if the EU decides to apply rules about what a search engine can or can\u2019t do versus what Google can or can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n
Bing, Google\u2019s chief competitor in many countries, highly touts its own vertical search engines. If it\u2019s unfair for Google, as a search engine, to \u201cfavor\u201d its own vertical search engines, then the same should be true for all search engines.<\/p>\n
Also see my prior post on this topic,\u00a0The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation. It takes the poor wisdom of an New York Times editorial suggesting that Google needs regulation and flips things around to illustrate how newspaper-like search engines are \u2014 and how no newspaper would want to be examined this way. It also touches on things that can be concerning about Google. Goodness knows, it\u2019s not perfect.<\/p>\n
But on the vertical search engine front, where does it end? Shopping search not allowed, but not image search? News search but no blog search? Only web search? Even that? Will Google be deemed so dominant that the only way to ensure competition is to literally force it to send people away to competitors?<\/p>\n
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http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/the-incredible-stupidity-of-investigating-google-for-acting-like-a-search-engine-57268<\/p>\n
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