French authorities propose to protect the national business from unfair competition by Google
The Senate of France supported the bill on the control of search engine algorithms. It is assumed that this proposal may weaken the position of Google in the French market. The idea of ​​the project is that search engines disclose their algorithms or pay a penalty of 10% of their global income. The bill has not yet been adopted - it will be discussed in the lower house of the French Parliament.
The initiator of the project was Senator Catherine Morin-Deceli. She believes that Google deliberately underestimates the position of competing services in search results. Recall that quite recently "Megamind" wrote about the beginning of the trial between the European antitrust regulator and Google.
According to Morin-Deceli, Europe is not quickly enough to solve the problem with Google, so you should "support the national business now." In this case, it is proposed to place on the main page of search engines links to at least three competitors. And one of the competitors should be a national search engine.
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France has its own search engine Qwant . The Ministry of Education plans to introduce it in educational institutions.
The new bill has both supporters and opponents, reports Techcrunch. French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, for example, believes that such measures should be coordinated with the European Commission. Consideration of the bill is scheduled for late April.
This is not the first attempt of such a “support of national business”. In 2009, a French court banned Google from digitizing books . In 2012, Google demanded a tax on the use of French press materials in Google News.
In 2013, the French Broadcasting Council recommended taxing YouTube . The Amazon online store last year, the government banned discounts and free delivery of books in France.
This year, the loud story with the Uber taxi service has reached its climax. In the ultimatum form, 14 French taxi companies are demanding that Uber cease operations in France, as it damages national taxis.
The initiator of the project was Senator Catherine Morin-Deceli. She believes that Google deliberately underestimates the position of competing services in search results. Recall that quite recently "Megamind" wrote about the beginning of the trial between the European antitrust regulator and Google.
According to Morin-Deceli, Europe is not quickly enough to solve the problem with Google, so you should "support the national business now." In this case, it is proposed to place on the main page of search engines links to at least three competitors. And one of the competitors should be a national search engine.
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France has its own search engine Qwant . The Ministry of Education plans to introduce it in educational institutions.
The new bill has both supporters and opponents, reports Techcrunch. French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, for example, believes that such measures should be coordinated with the European Commission. Consideration of the bill is scheduled for late April.
This is not the first attempt of such a “support of national business”. In 2009, a French court banned Google from digitizing books . In 2012, Google demanded a tax on the use of French press materials in Google News.
In 2013, the French Broadcasting Council recommended taxing YouTube . The Amazon online store last year, the government banned discounts and free delivery of books in France.
This year, the loud story with the Uber taxi service has reached its climax. In the ultimatum form, 14 French taxi companies are demanding that Uber cease operations in France, as it damages national taxis.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/289740/
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