(The Guardian) The European parliament has approved a motion calling for tougher regulation of internet search, including suggesting breaking up Google as a solution to its dominance in Europe.
The motion passed as expected by 384 votes to 174 with 56 MEPs abstaining, and encourages the European commission (EC) to consider unbundling Google’s search business from its advertising and other businesses.
The parliament has no direct power to break up Google in this manner and its calls to the EC have been seen as politicalisation of a regulatory issue.
The resolution calls the EC “to prevent any abuse in the marketing of interlinked services by operators of search engines” and “to consider proposals with the aim of unbundling search engines from other commercial services” in the long run.
Google declined to comment.
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