Russia fined Google $6.8 million today because the American company abused the popularity of its operating system in the country and forbade local companies to offer Russians their own services, something that is happening in almost all the world at the moment.
The Russians are angry like the search engine Yandex did not find a place in Android to facilitate Internet searches, but also that Google Maps it is the default location service, without the possibility of using a third-party application or service for this functionality, and Google will now pay for this "arrogance".
Google has been fined by Russia's federal antitrust agency and accused of monopolizing web searches and location data on Android smartphones, and while Google says it has not broken the law, it's easy to see how the Russians' side can be understood in all of this. this dispute.
The problem in Russia for Google lies in the fact that Yandex accounts for over 50% of all internet searches, and if Android did not have Google Search as its default search engine, then its market share would have been lower, but those of at Yandex they complain that they are not properly represented, which is very true.
August 11, 2016 the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) has appointed an administrative fine on the corporation Google Inc. in the amount of 438,067.4 million rubles. FAS Russia's Commission found that Google violated the law by providing counterparties – mobile device manufacturers to preinstall on mobile devices, intended for introduction into circulation in the territory of the Russian Federation, under the operating system Android, store the Google Play under conditions that include mandatory preset Google applications, as well as its search engine and their mandatory placement on the priority positions on the home page of the device.
Those from Google are now analyzing the situation and will probably have to pay a smaller fine after it is contested, but the even bigger problem is that they could be forced to integrate Yandex into several menus in the Android interface, and that it will affect you even more.
