News European Parliament votes for Google break-up resolution

Is it still a monopoly if you have achieved your market dominance via customer choice ?
Hypothetical speaking, if everyone buys my cheesecakes because they're really tasty and everyone else makes icky cheesecake, is it my fault that people can't match my cheesecake making skills ?

 

Not your fault, but you can easily comply with the break up by spinning of each different flavour into its own company, then have a company outside EU jurisdiction that is the majority shareholder for all of them, essentially rendering the break up meaningless.

 

How are search engine makers going to make money if they can't have "other commercial services"?
I guess we would end up having to pay per search done or something like that.. goodbye free search engines?
-Jacob

 

the same could have been said about internet explorer, but the eu ruled on that as well

 

No. Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows. The argument there is that Microsoft abused the dominance of its OS to push IE and hammer the competition.

 

How about duckduckgo they do not harvest your data nor do they manipulate your search

 

I'm not saying you're wrong about DuckDuckGo, but I don't believe ANY company any more.