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Matt Kilcoyne Matt Kilcoyne

The European Commission fining Google will end up hurting users in a misguided quest to help them

In fining Google this morning for giving prominence to its Google Shopping service European Regulators made the same mistake that regulators did in the 1990s when Microsoft was fined for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows products. Bundling has benefits as well as costs, because it pays for the free things Google does, and trying to stamp it out will end up hurting users in a misguided quest to help them.

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