Did anyone else see this news story yesterday? Link below to the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11876443
Basically they are being investigated by the EU (the ultimate non-appointed body that has lots of power and is not directly elected by anybody).
The pretence for this is to do with potential anti-competitive behaviour.
Now if google indexes several billion websites and about a millionth of a percent of those have complained about their ranking then it sounds like google is doing something right.
The EU institutions seem to be able to not able to bear success in any form, and any company that does well it likes to investigate and no doubt burn funds from all the poor countries that put into it in the process.
Now google can undoubtedly defend itself, but it's hard to see there is a case to answer to here. It's not like every PC being shipped with Internet Explorer for instance and having to download actively another browser; no-one tells you you have to use google, and if you don't like it, use a different search engine (or build a better one!)
With other search engines only one click away there is hardly any anti-competitive element that can be investigated. And as for some sites wanting to lift up their rankings, remember it is a zero sum game: if site a overtakes site b, then site b falls below site a, so someone is always going to be unhappy whatever happens.
What do you think about what I consider to be a pointless exercise by EU bureaucrats who, quite literally, have nothing better to do?
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