![]() It now dominates smartphone operating systems (Android), browsers (Chrome), web-based email (Gmail), online video (YouTube) and maps. Google started by taking over the search engine market. ![]() Most recently, Google was fined €4.34bn for “very serious illegal behaviour” in using Android “to cement its dominance as a search engine”, according to the EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, a charge the company contests. The EU has fined Google €2.4bn (£2.2bn) for abusing its search monopoly by favouring its products. Google’s motto used to be “don’t be evil”, but in the eyes of some it has now taken on the mantle of the “evil empire” from Microsoft, which Bill Gates and crew inherited from the IBM mocked in the Mac’s launch advert in 1984. ![]() How can I stop the intrusion of Google into almost everything? (After I’ve changed my email address.) Geoffrey
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