EU hit Google with record fine of €2.4 billion over Google shopping service!

[Tyrianth]

Good on the EU for holding up consumer rights and values.

[Deleted]

Before Poland entered EU we had over 7% of the economic growth, now we we are less than 3%. I am not afraid of leaving the EU, because as long as we can compete with cheap and quality products ppl will buy our stuff. If we lower taxes, the companies will start to invest here.

Cool - A, when you left the soviet union you were a missmanaged garbage dump.
B, know how much EU direct investment comes to Poland every year? - About 3% of GDP.

[Tackhisis]

Try convincing Europe to live without Google....

Most EU countries have local services that compete with Google, and target specific natonalities. They will quickly take its place.

[Nehezbegar]

Cool - A, when you left the soviet union you were a missmanaged garbage dump.
B, know how much EU direct investment comes to Poland every year? - About 3% of GDP.

Which does more harm than good, because of this we have to acomodate idiotic laws passed in EU. Also a fix, we haven't been a part of soviet Union, like Ukraine for instance. We've moved from under the soviet oriented socialist and we fell under brussels oriented socialists.

[Radaney]

I hope one day the EU will fail and the free market will be released from the shackles, so the ppl who work hard and have good ideas will do good, but lazy arses who have to hide behind legislation to let them compete with others will do bad, very bad.

EU easily has the most pro-consumer legislation in the world when it comes to...almost everything. From food safety standards to workers rights and general anti-consumer business practices

To go against it, is to go against yourself. Which is ridiculous.

The world should strive to have legislation like the EU.

[Deleted]

Android is not a Linux clone.

clone was a bad word i agree.

[Ulmita]

Go for it. Try convincing Europe to live without Google....

Instead of defending the multi billion $ companies, try to take the side of the consumer from time to time.

[Deleted]

Which does more harm than good, because of this we have to acomodate idiotic laws passed in EU. Also a fix, we haven't been a part of soviet Union, like Ukraine for instance. We've moved from under the soviet oriented socialist and we fell under brussels oriented socialists.

Yes, because polish lawmakers are clearly superior.
True, you were part of the equally mismanaged eastern bloc.
And oh, have you read the EU treaties? - Its a fucking Ode to capitalism.

[apepi]

I don't get any ads and I searched the same thing that they searched.

[Nehezbegar]

Yes, because polish lawmakers are clearly superior.
True, you were part of the equally mismanaged eastern bloc.
And oh, have you read the EU treaties? - Its a fucking Ode to capitalism.

Not really, for instance we cant liquidate VAT, the maximum we can lower it to is 15%. Youp, Polish legislators are superior to the ones in European Union, the amount of stupidity You can hear in EU parliment is out of this world.

[Tyrianth]

EU easily has the most pro-consumer legislation in the world when it comes to...almost everything. From food safety standards to workers rights and general anti-consumer business practices

To go against it, is to go against yourself. Which is ridiculous.

The world should strive to have legislation like the EU.

The sheep like to get flocked by the big and powerful. Doesn't matter if the laws and regulations are in their favour. If Google isn't happy, they aren't happy!

[Lollis]

Yep, the EU people will be stuck using the best of the subpar replacements while the rest of the world will enjoy using Google. EU countries would rather drive on dirt roads than let one asphalt company pave ALL of the roads because they do the best job at the lowest cost, just so multiple companies can get a chance to do a half-assed job at a higher cost to the buyer

"Stuck"? You are delusional. You really think that the money google's competitors would get by taking charge over a population of 700million would make no difference?

I suppose I should know better due to your posting history but to sincerely think that another company wouldn't surge in to snap up that market is fucking laughable.

[Chaelexi]

For example I want to buy a washing machine.

The cost to make said washing machine is 500 dollars.

Because of this, there will be a range of prices in shops from 600-1000 dollars.

As an internet-savy consumer, I go on the internet to find the shop that will sell it for 600.

I google the name of the washing machine and the top result is google shopping listing 5 websites that sell it for 750,700,650, 639 and 690 dollars.

I then go to the website that sells it for 639 and consider myself a smart customer.

However there was another website that sold it for 600, which wasn't listed in google shopping, so I lost 39 dollars.

There is also another price-comparison website called <insert random name> that does a better job and actually does list the 600 dollar website.

In a normal market scenario where the best product wins, the other price-comparison website would win out and google pricing would die out because they don't provide a good service.

However in this case google pricing would still get a lot of customers because they are always at the top of the google search results and thus getting a lot of customers from there, even though they might be providing a worse service, thus damaging the market that the EC is trying to protect.

Do you understand the example or did I miss a step anywhere?

How is this any different then pre-internet where companies would send you flyers with "sale" prices on them but if you took the time and drove or called all the competitors you may find a cheaper price. There are also many price lookup tools available(camelcamelcamel, shopbot to name a few). But hey it is the EU again not liking smart business practices.

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"Stuck"? You are delusional. You really think that the money google's competitors would get by taking charge over a population of 700million would make no difference?

I suppose I should know better due to your posting history but to sincerely think that another company wouldn't surge in to snap up that market is fucking laughable.

The void would be filled but currently the other options are subpar compared to the search algorithms that google employs. There is a reason why google has made most other search engines obsolete. The other backlash you would have is from Corporate EU where they have built website to include google search functions of the internal website. They would be force to do a mass update.

[Tyrianth]

How is this any different then pre-internet where companies would send you flyers with "sale" prices on them but if you took the time and drove or called all the competitors you may find a cheaper price. There are also many price lookup tools available(camelcamelcamel, shopbot to name a few). But hey it is the EU again not liking smart business practices.

Did the company that sent out those fliers have a monopoly on the postal service that prevents other companies from sending out their own?

[Lahis]

Android is not a Linux clone.

Yeah, not a clone. It's Linux Kernel made for mobile devices.

[Acidbaron]

suddenly all google services and access go down in all of the EU >.>

Never going to happen since they need this market badly if they were to leave it they would create such an open space for competition to take over and something would take over that spot without a doubt, google became great due to numerous users and their feedback they didn't just became good over night.

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Not really, for instance we cant liquidate VAT, the maximum we can lower it to is 15%. Youp, Polish legislators are superior to the ones in European Union, the amount of stupidity You can hear in EU parliment is out of this world.

Especially the amount of stupidity from Polish legislators.

This to show how far back your political majority is living in time, truly never gets old.




Than again a person being for populism politics calling others inferior is a good way to make a fool out of yourself

[Lollis]

The void would be filled but currently the other options are subpar compared to the search algorithms that google employs. There is a reason why google has made most other search engines obsolete. The other backlash you would have is from Corporate EU where they have built website to include google search functions of the internal website. They would be force to do a mass update.

Of course it would take a bit of time for the other companies to fully catch up, but he's acting like it'd be the end of the world for Europe's technology sector if we lost google which simply isn't the case at all. Look at how quickly technology changes, you only have to look at how many search engines have been and gone simply because they DIDN'T have a market share with which to get the money needed for development.

There are countless options NOW for the nonsense 'stuff we'd miss' that he spouted, with a little extra publicity there is no reason why they wouldn't take up the mantle from a company that would no longer exist to be an opponent.

They are like bacteria, google is the big boy at the moment, but when they get sprayed that 0.1% of bacteria that survives WILL take over.

[Bakis]

Go for it. Try convincing Europe to live without Google....

Try convincing yourself Google want to pass on the EU market....

[Nehezbegar]

Never going to happen since they need this market badly if they were to leave it they would create such an open space for competition to take over and something would take over that spot without a doubt, google became great due to numerous users and their feedback they didn't just became good over night.

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Especially the amount of stupidity from Polish legislators.

This to show how far back your political majority is living in time, truly never gets old.

Now You show Your stupidity applying that average applies to specific women

[Mehrunes]

Of course Hubcap (and few similar US nationalist geniuses) is whining in this thread about how evul EU is deliberately targeting poor, innocent US companies on the basis of them being US companies. Not because, I dunno, them breaking the law of the countries they operate in (in terms of Google, that case was going on for years so they had ample time to adhere to EU's antitrust laws). To make the argument even more laughable, included Uber as an example, despite their business model resting on deliberately breaking the law. Nationalists with victimhood issues, predictable as always.