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http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/21/european-p … google-breakup/
"Google's been caught up in an antitrust tango with the European Union for years, and since the EU hasn't been thrilled with the search giant's attempted concessions, there might be an extreme new option on the table. According to a report from the Financial Times, the European Parliament is expected to ask Google to split itself in twain, leaving its search business separate from the rest of its commercial operations...."
They might actually have a case. Google uses it's dominance in the search engine market as leverage to lift it's other divisions to equally dominant positions in much the same way as Microsoft leverages it's operating system dominance into other areas. The same applies to eBay/Paypal and any number of other tech companies who dominate their fields and have been trying to branch out from their core business. Google is going to be hard pressed to convince the skeptical E.U. regulators that this is not the case.