Google moves to silence critics - whips out EC search settlement deal Google has gone public with details of its revised search biz settlement offer, after it successfully bagged a deal from Brussels' competition chief last week - despite disappointment from rivals in the case who had pushed for tough sanctions. In a blog post today, the ad giant's general counsel Kent Walker said that Google …
This settlement is about how Google Search results will keep containing links to other Google products, taking advantage from the fact nobody uses other search engines.
Google has a completely separate row with the EU concerning how they aggregate private user data from their different products without giving a choice to the users.
Do try to keep up!
> This settlement is about how Google Search results will keep containing links to other Google products, taking advantage from the fact nobody uses other search engines.
Who makes people not use other search engines and unlike Microsoft they don't make Bing the default engine with each service pack update of Windows
I am deeply unimpressed with the document and with Google.
Firstly by the access to the document. The link in el Reg is to a file edit.htm, which contains javascript gobbledegook which obfuscates any genuine URL that the document might have. That gobble... whinges at the version of Firefox I am using. When I hit the save button, it offers me only edit.htm. But then I hit the print button, and that offers gibberish£$%^&*.pdf, which seems to be a printable pdf.
Secondly, the document itself. No table of contents, no introduction, no executive summary. For a document of 90+ pages we expect some help. The document radiates the legal expertise that went into it, but there is just no editorial expertise.
It would be nice to see Google defeated, as punishment for that awful document.
@Primus Secundus Tertius: "The link in el Reg is to a file edit.htm, which contains javascript gobbledegook which obfuscates any genuine URL"
That's called Google Redirection, so as Google can see what links you clink on in the Search Results. You can disable this with `google-no-tracking-url' - not that this will prevent GC.NSA.HQ from recording your entire web activity for the past decade(s).
"Full text of the Agreement" PDF 5.1 MB 93 pages ...
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