Right now, Ask, Bing, Yahoo and Google control 99% of the search market. In Europe, Google controls close to 90% of that.
That sounds like about the same market penetration that lead to the EU decision to force MS to offer browser choice this month on new machines.
But right now, most (all?) of those browsers default to Google search.
Europeans need more choice. Just like they needed choice on the browsers. On new machines, after they download whichever browser, they need a screen with the top 6 search engines and to ask people who will be their default search provider.
Even if the browser is Chrome.
It’s only “fair.”
What’s good for the Goose is good for the Google.