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Australian Regulator Begins Probing Google’s Search Browser Dominance Following its acrimonious battle with Google and Facebook over media payment laws, the Australian regulator is now targeting the dominance of Google’s search engine and web browser services. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking submissions from stakeholders, including consumers and industry participants, to examine the possibility of mandating “choice screens” in all new smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Choice screens appear when a user starts up their device and it shows the consum...

Source: Adobe. Google’s admission to hiding some traditional media reports in search results could be reflective of a sea change in the role of the tech behemoth in the SME landscape. But, while there’s no harm in watching closely, there’s not a lot small businesses can do about it. Google has reportedly said it is conducting “a few experiments” that will reach about 1% of Australian users, and which it says is measuring “the impacts of new businesses and Google Search on each other”. In practice, that means 1% of users are not seeing news stories from selected media outlets in ...