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“At the same time, French media filed a formal complaint to the Autorité de la Concurrence (the French antitrust body). Their argument, expressed by three publishers I talked to this weekend: ‘Google put us in an impossible position: either we give up the snippets and the visibility and then our page views take a hit, or we forgo the payment which is now carved into law. But Google didn’t play fair: in doing so, it put itself in a text-book case of abuse of dominant position. And we intend to leverage this. We are by no means backing down.'” —
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France,
Google
