EU launches probe into Meta, Apple and Alphabet under sweeping new tech law

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  1. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    Arjun Kharpal@ArjunKharpal Published Mon, Mar 25 2024
     
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    Other investigations are looking into whether Google favored its own services over rivals when showing search results
    This keeps cropping up all the time.
    If I provided a FREE to all service then I would certainly try to offset the costs by showing my subsidiaries as the "favored" result.

    At the bottom of the Google search page is a "How Search works" link. The ambiguous information almost acts as a disclaimer for the results.

    Most people are aware of this, and yet they still choose Google as their goto search engine.
     
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