Interesting how European commissioners are keen to tackle big American companies, but less keen to tackle the protectionism in many European countries and in farming all over the EU, which also restricts competition.
The EU tackled Microsoft and insisted it changed the way it bundled browser and other software with its operating system. There are lots of operating systems and lots of browsers, but the EU still thought it ought to be brought down a peg or two to give the second-raters a hand.
Likewise there are many search engines and many comparison websites. Google is used by most people because it is the best and it is free. You can pay to have your adverts appear in Google searches, but to the ordinary punter, the service is free. Nonetheless, the EU thinks it restricts competition.
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple have all succeeded because their founders are driven mavericks who made brilliant ideas work. They did not need government help.
Any European entrepreneurs who aim to match those achievements will do so by their own efforts, not because the EU has hobbled the market leaders.
I'm in favour of the European Union, but this sort of government-knows-best nonsense gives huge help to the anti-Europe nationalists.
Europe should sort out its own problems before trying to put the world to rights.
