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EU raises stakes in Google battle with antitrust charges

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Oh come on! Apple has twice the assets of Google and is three times as profitable. And the market for getting highlighted in search results is only so big. How come somebody can't take a bite out of the Apple for me?

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How dare those Europeans try to tell Americans how to do business.

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Fortunately the EU is starting to side with China...Tired of US bullying.

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Who's bullying who? A government body bullying a business? Most of ya guys use Google search.

The company has a market share of over 90 percent of Internet searches in the EU, compared with around 70 percent in the U.S. Vestager said that one in four companies complaining about Google were U.S. rivals.

More Europeans use Google than in the US.

Rejecting suggestions that the EU was pursuing an anti-American, protectionist policy, Vestager, a liberal former economy minister, said about a quarter of the firms which had complained to the EU authorities about Google were themselves U.S.-owned.

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