lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhy there’s no European Google?ploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down19cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipbuyeuropean@feddit.ukopensource@programming.devopensource@lemmy.mllobsters@lemmy.bestiver.seeurope@feddit.orgeurope@feddit.org
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minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoEuropean laws back in the 80s and 90s basically kept killing off anything that could have grown into a Google competitor. Draconian copyright laws screwed Europe over rather hard. Took a long time for them to fix it, and by then it was too late. Hard to build a search engine back then when you just got sued into the ground.
European laws back in the 80s and 90s basically kept killing off anything that could have grown into a Google competitor.
Draconian copyright laws screwed Europe over rather hard. Took a long time for them to fix it, and by then it was too late.
Hard to build a search engine back then when you just got sued into the ground.