EU Parliament votes to break up Google

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Source: Yahoo News / AFP

In a direct challenge to Google, MEPs assembled in Strasbourg approved a resolution calling on the EU to consider ordering search engines to separate their commercial services from their businesses. While Google is not directly mentioned in the proposal, the California-based search engine is clearly the target. The resolution passed with 384 in favour and only 174 votes against. <snip>

Since 2010, Google has been under investigation by the European Commission in response to complaints that its search engine, the world's biggest, was squeezing out competitors in Europe. Google and Brussels have also clashed over the so-called "right to be forgotten", in which the EU's top court ruled last year that people had a right to ask search engines to delete results involving them after a period of time.



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as noted in the article, vote is 'largely symbolic'.

[rocktivity]

1. I like that idea, too

You should not be able to run the search engines and businesses that depend on them. Symbolically cue the Vonage theme!


rocktivity

[T_i_B]

2. The European Parliament has no power to launch the breakup of Google

Just grandstanding from MEP's. Nothing more.

[pampango]

3. Although merely symbolic ... the move came the day after a se

separate European body sought to further expand citizens’ “right to be forgotten” privacy protections against Google.

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