First three sites to the European Commission filed an antitrust complaint, Milan, Italy, after a court sentenced the company's three current and former executives for breaching privacy laws, in countries such as France and Germany, Google also launched investigations of unfair competition
France's latest data show that in January this year, the European Internet users use the Internet to about 29.6 billion searches, of which 253 billion is to use Google search engine, its market share of 85.5%, its "hegemony" status has become increasingly attracted European countries concerned
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, February 25 (Reporter Li Xuemei) - The global Internet search engine giant Google recently can be described as a non-constant: first three sites to the European Commission filed an antitrust complaint, Milan, Italy, after a court sentenced the company's three current and former high - tube for breaching privacy laws, in countries such as France and Germany, Google also launched the investigation of unfair competition. Public opinion, these "coincidence" that reflects the European countries Google "a dominant" behavior concerns.
Coincidentally
Milan, Italy, 24, a court heard the case with online video. The prosecution case is a group for people with Down's syndrome endorsement of the named "Weiwei Tang association." Provided to the Prosecutor of the organization appeared in 2006, Google video site a video, which shows a tendency of autistic students in four people being beaten and humiliated of the screen. Although based in Milan, "Google Italian" Ultimately this video removed, but the prosecution argued that Google does not relate to "personal content" of the video monitor, and the negative attitude of the relevant complaints, slow to react. After the court hearing and found that Google three current and former executives for breaching privacy laws, punishable by 6 months of their imprisonment, suspended.
Coincidentally, the European Commission said in a statement the same day, received three companies for Google's antitrust complaints, and procedures in accordance with the normal notice earlier this month, Google Inc., asking them to respond on related accusations. Google's senior adviser to the European Anti-Monopoly Service Julia Holtz, Google's official Web site at revealed that complaints are a British company price comparison service site, a French law, Microsoft's search service sites and the United States acquired a German website. But she strongly denied the existence of any violation of Google's European Union antitrust rules. British "Daily Telegraph" is quoted saying that the above-mentioned Web site, Google search engines use a variety of filters to these sites be removed from the relevant search results, so that they have suffered business losses and resulted in unfair business competition.
In addition, the French Publishers Association, the Authors Guild and publishers at the end of last year combined to Google sued the French court that the Google Book Search service for copyright infringement. Paris, a court has ruled that Google Inc. on the unauthorized practice of scanning books included constitute infringement, it shall parties compensation 30 million euros (about 430,000 U.S. dollars).
Ahead
French French market research firm Comscore's latest data released showed that in January this year, the European Internet users use the Internet to about 29.6 billion searches, of which 253 billion is to use Google search engine to complete, and its market share as high as 85.5%, far ahead of the same type of search engine, its "hegemony" status has increasingly attracted the concern of European countries.
A few months, France has some of the cultural class Web site complained that the interception of Google free web content to provide search services and thus access to advertising resources. A recent report by the French government that does not rule out some of Google's behavior is its dominance of the "misuse." On the 18th of this month, the French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde instructed the French Competition Department on the online advertising competition in the investigation and asked the agency this summer to submit a report to her. German newspapers and magazines also accused Google News by means of unfair competition and took away their readers. Germany Google Maps Web site claimed that the destruction of its rural markets. The relevant agencies have launched investigations against these lawsuits.
For Google's monopoly position, the French National Scientific Research Center researcher, information security experts, Michelle Lane Home ider in an interview a few days ago, said that Europe also has a good search engine, but Google a powerful propaganda offensive, people tend to choose the latter, while the search engines just like Hollywood movies, can produce subtle effects on the user. He believes that Europe should put the appropriate information industry policy, to break this monopoly.
