Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Google, This Is Why You're Under Investigation - BusinessWeek

Perhaps Google should pay Microsoft to expand Bing more aggressively in Europe…

It’s easy to dismiss the claims against Google as carping by rivals. But for anyone who thinks the EU investigation isn’t warranted, here are a couple of data points worth thinking about.

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First, figures from Hitwise suggest Google now accounts for 92 percent of all search traffic in the U.K. That’s an all-time high for the company, signifying complete domination of the market. The figure is actually higher in some other European countries, and it’s significantly more than its North American market share. Google dominates the European market to a degree far greater than its successes at home.

Google, This Is Why You're Under Investigation - BusinessWeek

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