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EU mulls €3bn fine for Google

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: Bonkers

"Seems like Google are being penalized for making good products and a search engine that people want to use."

No, they are being penalised for promoting their own business above the competitors be deliberately rigging the search results. That is the point, it is no longer simple an algorithm that finds the best match to what you asked for, but one where there is another fudge-factor that promotes their own stuff.

Didn't you ever wonder how paid search promotion worked?

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