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Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2464" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/14/travel-startups-cry-foul-over-what-googles-doing-with-their-data/" target="_blank"><strong>Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data - Tech Crunch</strong></a></p><p></p><p>As the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/27/tech-hearing-apple-google-amazon-facebook-antitrust-house-judiciary/" target="_blank">antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants</a>, with <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-google/u-s-justice-department-going-full-tilt-on-tech-antitrust-probe-official-idUKKCN259332" target="_blank">Reuters</a> reporting comments today from the U.S. Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants including Google parent Alphabet, startups in Europe’s travel sector are dialing up their allegations of anti-competitive behavior against the search giant.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://crunchbase.com/organization/google" target="_blank">Google </a> has near complete grip on the search market in Europe, with a regional market share in excess of 90%, according to <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/europe" target="_blank">Statcounter</a>. Unsurprisingly, industry sources say a majority of travel bookings start as a Google search — giving the tech giant huge leverage over the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/three-travel-startups-tell-us-how-theyre-responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/" target="_blank">coronavirus-hit sector</a>.</p><p></p><p>More than half a dozen travel startups in Germany are united in a shared complaint that Google is abusing its search dominance in a number of ways they argue are negatively impacting their businesses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2464, member: 1"] [URL='https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/14/travel-startups-cry-foul-over-what-googles-doing-with-their-data/'][B]Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data - Tech Crunch[/B][/URL] As the [URL='https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/27/tech-hearing-apple-google-amazon-facebook-antitrust-house-judiciary/']antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants[/URL], with [URL='https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-google/u-s-justice-department-going-full-tilt-on-tech-antitrust-probe-official-idUKKCN259332']Reuters[/URL] reporting comments today from the U.S. Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants including Google parent Alphabet, startups in Europe’s travel sector are dialing up their allegations of anti-competitive behavior against the search giant. [URL='https://crunchbase.com/organization/google']Google [/URL] has near complete grip on the search market in Europe, with a regional market share in excess of 90%, according to [URL='https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/europe']Statcounter[/URL]. Unsurprisingly, industry sources say a majority of travel bookings start as a Google search — giving the tech giant huge leverage over the [URL='https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/three-travel-startups-tell-us-how-theyre-responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/']coronavirus-hit sector[/URL]. More than half a dozen travel startups in Germany are united in a shared complaint that Google is abusing its search dominance in a number of ways they argue are negatively impacting their businesses. [/QUOTE]
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