Thoughts
I don't really follow Google news, so I didn't realize Google search was effected by the DMA. The EU is soooo angry that when you search for
a flight on Google it shows you a Google Flights result.
"Alphabet was designated as a gatekeeper for the Google search service" yeah. EU making it illegal for Google to decide what shows up in Google search results. It's crazy. It's just raw socialism. Only a very small number of companies (6 I believe) are effected, intentionally, because it's not about protecting consumers. If you wanted to protect consumers, you'd write a law that search engines have to provide a list of links and aren't allows to include "smart" result boxes. But that's not what they did. They said Google isn't allowed to provide "smart" result boxes with information from Google services. Anyone else can do it. It's about hurting and slowing down Google so that European competitors can catch up. It's about saying that Google is big enough that they are no longer legally allowed to pursue their own selfish interests, they have to pursue the interests of the government.