The third time may be the charm. According to Reuters Google
is (once again) “close to settling a three-year antitrust probe by
European regulators after it offered ‘much better’ concessions” to the
European Commission (EC). However Google has been here before.
Two previous antitrust settlements were strenuously opposed and thus
defeated by Google critics and competitors. As part of that lobbying
campaign several sponsored studies
were issued, which uniformly found the core of Google’s settlement
proposals — prominently showing links to rivals’ results — would have
little or no impact on user behavior.
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