Successful American company? Kill it if at all possible!
The European Parliament has voted in favour of breaking Google up, as a solution to complaints that it favours is own services in search results.
Politicians have no power to enforce a break-up, but the landmark vote sends a clear message to European regulators to get tough on the net giant.
US politicians and trade bodies have voiced their dismay at the vote.
The ultimate decision will rest with EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She has inherited the anti-competitive case lodged by Google's rivals in 2010.
Google has around 90% market share for search in Europe and rivals asked the commission to investigate four areas:
The manner in which Google displays its own vertical search services compared with other, competing products
How Google copies content from other websites - such as restaurant reviews - to include within its own services
The exclusivity Google has to sell advertising around the search terms people use
Restrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search engines
Predecessor Joaquin Almunia tried and failed to settle the case. A series of concessions made by Google were rejected, leading Mr Almunia to suggest that the only option was a fine. This could be up to $5bn.
The Commission has never before ordered the break-up of any company, and many believe it is unlikely to do so now. But politicians are desperate to find a solution to the long-running anti-competitive dispute with Google.
'Desperate'? Someone dying in pain out there?
The motion brought by Andreas Schwab, a German Christian Democrat, and Spanish liberal Ramon Tremosa stated that the best way to resolve the row with the net giant was to separate search engines from other commercial services thereby ensuring a level playing field for rivals in Europe.
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He voted for it, he'll have to deal with it when he's up for re-election in 2016. I hope the Pubs have somebody decent to go up against this self-promoting POS.
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By 2016, it'll get hit with more sticker shock and Bama won't be concerned about his reelection to stall price increases just beyond the next election date anymore.
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Yep, Senator Microphone Schumer pretty much called a spade a spade on this one.
Good to see him speak rationally and truthfully about the crap legislation. Perhaps that means a chance Obumblecare will go away next year with Democrats joining the Republicans to do the right thing for once.
Now that we know the insurance industry wrote large chunks of it as a welfare program for the health insurance folks, I expect a more detailed examination of the legislation and a dissection of the language.
San Fran Nan is having a hissy fit as Schumer called BS on her left wing nonsense.
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In a shocking revelation, the Treasury Inspector General has identified some 2,500 documents that "potentially" show taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service being shared with President Obama's White House.
The discovery was revealed to the group Cause of Action, which has sued for access to any of the documents. It charges that the IRS and White House have harassed taxpayers.
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people need to be fired and pensions terminated
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At this point, I'd be fine if that number was well over 1,000 IRS employees. Most of the people on the help lines are freaking dopes, so you wouldn't be missing much on that front.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.