Google and the Pesky European Regulators

October 3, 2014

Something Will Happen in Google Dominance Probe. Just Don’t Ask Me What—EU Antitrust Chief” may suggest that Google’s woes in the European Community will persist. According to the write up:

[Google] is a company with a huge, huge, huge market share and we have complainants of all sizes.

If the fines are sufficiently large, perhaps the EC’s economic woes can be in part reversed. That just leaves the EC with the challenge of joblessness, immigration, the Ukraine-Russia dust up, and the money demands of Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.

Perhaps should just raise ad rates for EC customers and share the revenue with Brussels/Strasbourg. Better yet why not route the AdWords’ revenue flow from European advertisers to regulators? Can one interpret AdWords as a form of taxation by the country of Google which should pay for cross border transactions?

Stephen E Arnold, October 3, 2014

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