Googlephobia

Digital Single Market’s Trap for Competition

BY More Liberal Voices AND Dominykas Sumskis / June 16, 2015

On May 6, 2015, the European Commission announced the Digital Single Market Strategy. It is a set of policies aimed at encouraging the development of innovation, digital technologies and cyberspace. The intentions are good, but will implementation be successful?

Society

Is Europe’s Googlephobia Justified?

BY Dominykas Sumskis / April 26, 2015

Google has been targeted by the European Commission. The IT giant has been accused of prioritizing its price comparison services in search engines. To illustrate, when comparing prices from two dealers, Google Shopping comes out on the screen. Formally, one can of course justify an investigation as a potential abuse of the dominant position by Google, but what is the real cause?