Comments on: Search engines vs. EU – Spectacular backfire.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 05:51:20 +0000

This has nothing to do with users. Its about the EU misunderstanding and meddling in the market for search. You are right though, there are no great EU tech companies left outside of SAP and ASML.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:29:06 +0000

So you think as users we should suffer from bad search results just to help some local company that has crappier results (don’t get me started on Quaero)? The solution is not making the leader slower, but creating conditions in Europe that allow companies like Google to get created. We don’t have the infrastructure in Europe, it’s hard work to create that environment, but I don’t see anyone taking a stab at this…

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Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:27:00 +0000

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By: Rita

Rita — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:34:21 +0000

Or it will appear chances for local search engines to grow when dominant player will be a bit restricted.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:05:23 +0000

This is the what the EU thinks. Whay it doesent realise is that this will have the opposite effect. The smaller players cant afford the fees so even if the fees end up getting paid it further skew the market to the larger players….

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:44:14 +0000

Quality of journalism getting worse because the press can no longer afford to pay for good quality journos so they have all gone off to do other things…same as analysis….

By: Tomasz Jamroszczak

Tomasz Jamroszczak — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:45:12 +0000

I don’t oppose your thesis that EU doesn’t know the right answer to the question: how can we help press.

However, the press is dying. Online ads are going astray (https://www.rjionline.org/stories/breaking-news-1-how-monetizing-became-malvertising), paywalls work only partially, Apple News or Google’s AMP are eating their own share of the cake, and quality of journalism is getting worse. EU wants to help press the way it sees it: by fighting one corporations in favor of another. That’s not the right path, but is there someone who knows which path is?

By: Rita

Rita — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:24:18 +0000

If to consider Google as supra-portal, EU seeks to strenghen local portals by disabling google. It seems expectations are that readers will come back to model of subscription to local portals. Its a known problem with Google that local content/ news in local languages are berried on page 25 -100 on Google search and inrenet users actually get only main stream content (or content providers must pay Google to appear on the furst page) . Local cintent priducers suffer a lot from Google indexing – majority start internet from Google or FC and local content has no chance to be on first page. Not sure if EU authorities chosen right means and it can change habits of content consumption. But it would be interesting to live in ” pre-google” era while local portals were dominating start-page.