EU Parliament Passes Resolution to get tough on Google and other search engines

 

Google should be broken up if it won't stick to European Union competition rules, members of the European Parliament in Brussels,Belgium said today Thursday Nov 27,2014

European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion urging antitrust regulators to get tough on Google and other Internet search engines over allegations of biased search results.

The resolution was passed with 384 votes for versus 174 against and is the strongest public signal of Europe's concern with the growing power of U.S. tech giants

The resolution did not mention Google or any specific search engine, though Google is by far the dominant provider of such services in Europe with an estimated 90 percent market share.

The lawmakers called on the Commission, in charge of enforcing fair competition in the European Union, to consider proposals with the aim of unbundling search engines from other commercial services.

Google is the target of a four-year investigation by the European Commission, triggered by complaints from Microsoft, Expedia, European publishers and others that it promotes its services at their expense.