6 ms·

Google shut down their product search because of antitrust issues. It took a while before they realized that they were about to get into real trouble. Hence the

Google shut down their product search because of antitrust issues. It took a while before they realized that they were about to get into real trouble. Hence the “half-assed” replacement.

nothis 7y ago
Really? In the US? Do you have any good article on that?
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- oflannabhra 7y ago
  Not in the US. In the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#Google_Shopping_charges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#Goog...
prepend 7y ago
The antitrust issues were that they were favoring their own results [0]. I would have used the site more if their response was to have a fair algorithm for results. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-eu-antitrust-violations-over-shopping-searches/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-e...