Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked 116
itwbennett writes "Google's latest proposals aimed at avoiding an antitrust fine from European authorities have been leaked amid growing anger over the secrecy surrounding the case. The documents, which have been verified by sources in possession of the originals, revealed the full remedies put forward by Google, the questionnaire that rivals have been asked to fill in giving their response to the remedies and a comparison document showing the changes in Google's remedies since the last proposals. Unlike the first round of so-called 'market testing,' Google's revised proposals have not been made public and were only sent to 125 interested parties who were warned that they were not to be made public."
What is Google alleged to have done wrong? (Score:5, Informative)
This information is completely missing from the summary and from the article it links to.
Re:What is Google alleged to have done wrong? (Score:5, Informative)
FTA: "[...]abused its dominant market position. [...] prioritizing its services in search results, scraping content from rival websites, tying advertisers in with exclusivity clauses [...] making it difficult to move advertising campaigns away from its sites."
Re:They built the best search engine, so punish th (Score:5, Informative)
Perhaps instead of modding this as flameait, you should ue a search engine, perhaps even Bing, where you can find Reuters articles and other with information like the following:
"Lobby group FairSearch, whose members include complainants Microsoft, online travel agency Expedia and British price comparison site Foundem, expressed doubts over the effectiveness of Google's proposal.
"It seems that no genuinely significant changes have been made to the initial proposal, so it is difficult to see how the new package can hope to solve the competition concerns Mr Almunia (the EU Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia) has declared must be addressed," FairSearch lawyer Thomas Vinje said.
ICOMP, another lobby group that that counts Microsoft and four other complainants among its members, agreed."
I see Microsoft is putting those Android patent dollars to good use.