EU flexes its muscles to research on Google
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The commission launched its preliminary investigation after three digital companies filed a complaint about the way in which that exploited Google. Ciao, a German online shopping Web site owned by Microsoft, Foundem, a site search UK ejustice.fr, a site of French legal research, asserted that they were being unfairly penalized by giant Silicon Valley so that their names were not listed on the first vital search pages.
Google has responded in a robust manner, saying that those complaints are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of research works.With millions of websites and billions of searches by day, is no way that Google would have the time or the ability to create random "penalties" for some opérateurs.Si you search for "iPod", for example, there are results of 245 m - where on earth could begin?
Secondly, if Google search does not draw the best sites to the top of the list and then consumers would soon start going to other sites such as belonging to Microsoft Bing search. Google has to allow all of quality sites to make it atop otherwise that market dominance would be under threat.
As these complex arguments are exhausted, there is another element to the story - the role of Microsoft.Alongside three complaints, last week a "web" campaign was launched called haveibeenpenalized.com who said that "would require greater transparency of search engine.
So far, he lists three sites that claim to search engine penalties have affected their business - TradeComet stadtplandienst.de (German site) and a new page.I spoke to the man leading the campaign, the Dr. Marc Pinter-Krainer on a new page, who said that this was not specifically to Google, but then recherche.Impair sites, all three currently listed sites are saying they suffer from a "Google penalty.
A supporter of the campaign is the initiative for a competitive marketplace and online (Icomp) - an organization supported by Microsoft, arch enemy of Google.Foundem, one of the original complainants of the European Commission, is also member of icomp.nombreux worldwide technology think it's a little whiffy, because it is Microsoft, so often the big bad wolf "restrictive" bundled products and the battle of decades long with the European Commission on competition issues that may have more to gain from a survey.
If the commission is to act, it must ensure that it is a simple matter and allow Google to make some positive changes, such as transparency, in the table, all research sites must then follow - including Microsoft.
That the Commission should not allow itself to become a tool of competitors of Google or infernal agent of "regulation of success".So far, complaints are a very small number of operators, especially themselves very faible.Ce is important, it is to keep things in perspective.
False times
Barclays Capital is in danger of becoming the mower euro.Si area you remember back in the era of dim and distant from September of this year, it was a report BarCap on the dangers of the banking system Irish that sparked a significant jump in Irish bond yields and increased the price of insurance of the Irish government debt.
At the time of the report and its coverage in the media, the Irish Government has responded with its inhabitants (and ultimately harm) claim that these reports have been completely and totally wrong.
"There is absolutely no truth in rumours concerning external assistance", a spokesman of the Ministry of finance the Ireland said at the time .Brian Lenihan, the Secretary of finance now somewhat to, beleaguered took to the airwaves: "I accept only has a few new shock about to emerge," he said.
Moreover, that the time appears a terribly long it y a.Que we present today, the European Commission is about to announce details of its €85bn (￡ 72bn) bail-out of the Ireland and the price that is extracted to the large cheque and the IMF are about to write Ireland .Banque could be fully nationalized and some bank debt holders (junior, it seems rather than senior) orders take not so haircuts as a military-style buzz cut.
The question is now, of course, is the next? irascible markets know that fundamental problems playing in the euro area are far from being resolved and tensions between the Germany and Club Med countries are clear for all to see.
Enter stage left once more, BarCap, with its false peaufiné.Dans a report released Friday, Spain, BarCap suggests, marvelously deadpan way, a "delicate" à l'avance spring .the report states that the Spanish Government must lift €30bn in the first four months of 2011, at the same time as the Spanish raise banks had been €.
"Combined issuance of €73bn examines demanding, with half of it in April alone," according to the report. "" """It's a real test of the appetite of investors for the exhibition at the Spain, especially if there are concerns renewed credit quality".
We know that Spain deny it is in any difficulty and that everyone must pass just sur.Qui is, of course, anything that said Ireland.
