@kelkoogroup ICOMP voices Margrethe Vestager Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 The Consumer Voice And then there’s the small matter (barely worth mentioning really) that those clicks cost rivals ~80% of their profit while Google’s clicks cost them nothing...oh...and in an anti-competitive double-whammy that ~80% of rivals’ profits goes to Google. foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem…

@kelkoogroup ICOMP voices Margrethe Vestager Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 The Consumer Voice In other words, a click on Google Shopping earns Google 100% of the profit while a click on a rival earns Google ~80% of the profit. So, even if rivals were being clicked on 100% of the time, Google’s auction-based non-remedy would still be 100% non-compliant.

Our recent submission to the European Commission outlines Google's latest behind-the-scenes "remedy" manoeuvres in the Google Search case and analyses their chilling implications: foundem.com/The_Google_Spe… #antitrust #GoogleShopping

Here’s our December 2016 rebuttal to Google’s July 2018 arguments: foundem.co.uk/Foundem_Respon… ABA Antitrust Law Section #antitrust #Google #GoogleShopping x.com/ugambini/statu…

Here, the BBC is confusing and conflating “life before the Web/Internet” with “life before Google”. That’s handy on a day Google is fined $5 billion for anti-competitive practices. #Google #Antitrust bbc.com/news/world-448…

Note the steady rise in ad revenue % from G’s own properties. Where’s the dip since Google Shopping started “bidding” in Google’s so-called remedy? Oh that’s right. Google Shopping IS a Google property. G’s proposed remedy is just a sham: foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem… h/t Jason Kint

Prediction 1: Google will use the summer break to cultivate as many of these Ad-Agencies-Posing-as-CSSs as possible. Prediction 2: This cynical strategy will fail to provide the desired outcome: the illusion of a functioning remedy. EU Competition econsultancy.com/blog/70209-goo…

Luther Lowe Agreed. Here are a few relevant quotes Google missed out: #AGGoogleLawsuit #Google #antitrust

Our take on the DMA: foundem.co.uk/Foundem_DMA_An… #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

One of the most disturbing aspects of this whole #NewAmerica / #Google story is the repeated use of the word "ouster" instead of "ousting". x.com/artistrightsno…

And here is a reminder of exactly how & why we disagree with #Google's arguments against the EU verdict: foundem.co.uk/Foundem_Respon… x.com/nicholashirst_…

Our comment on #Google's proposed "Remedy" in the Search (Google Shopping) Case - The Return of the Undead Auction: foundem.co.uk/The_Return_of_…

Our initial thoughts on why #Google’s proposed auction-based “remedy” does not comply with the European Commission’s required equal-treatment remedy: foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem…

The #Google Search (Comparison Shopping) Case: Why Google’s pay-for-placement auction falls far short of the EC’s stipulated equal-treatment standard. And an outline of Google’s options moving forward. #antitrust foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem…

This Sunday's NYT Magazine cover story entitled "The Case Against Google" has struck such a nerve that Google is paying to promote tweets at reporters in an attempt to discredit it. @CDuhigg's piece is a must-read: nytimes.com/2018/02/20/mag… ...A thread on the anatomy of Google's spin:

Open letter from Foundem to Commissioner Margrethe Vestager & cabinet members EU Competition Yizhou Ren Ricardo Cardoso “ #Google remedies fail to comply with decision” Letter is online both on the searchneutrality.org and FairSearch website #transparency Ramon Tremosa 🎗🌹 Andreas Schwab @ASchwab.bsky.social

Nicholas Hirst The headline is misleading as Margrethe Vestager and her team did a good job on the prohibition decision, much better than Joaquin Almunia. The problem is Google and the way they are trying to address Margrethe Vestager decision. The Remedy is not working!!! x.com/nicholashirst_…

Our interactive presentation debunks Google Shopping’s meaningless “bids” and promise to run at a notional “profit” to reveal that Google’s “remedy” in the EC Google Search case is not just non-compliant, it’s exactly the same as 4 yrs ago. #antitrust foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem…

4/ Why Google’s promise to run Google Shopping at a notional “profit” sounds reassuring, but is also essentially meaningless... See the full presentation here: foundem.co.uk/fmedia/Foundem…