[blell]

They can build whatever they want with lots of #hashtags and public money, but that doesn't mean they'll get 30% of French people to use it.

But of course they managed to cut themselves a nice salary with EU funds, paid in part by me and you, so that's all that matters.

[alexgieg]

The French government managed to rein in Amazon so traditional French stores, both online and brick and mortar ones, don't go bankrupt due to Amazon's unending pockets.

If they deem it necessary to rein in Google, they will rein in Google. There's no lack of tools for this, ranging from obliging phones sold in French territory to offer the French search engine as the default, to forcing every Google search result to promote the local search engine prominently, to campaigns about how it's important for national security not to rely on an adversary/enemy country's services, to everything in between and beyond.

[philistine]

Oh no, someone is making money outside of the big American monopolists. Quick, the vapors!

[whatarethembits]

The landscape has completely shifted now; now more than ever, there's a real need for Europe to pivot from relying too much on an adversary.

[johnofthesea]

> with lots of #hashtags

I missed this one. What was it about?

[blell]

Click the link.

[1718627440]

Which honestly no user cares about. They only care about whether it is good enough that they can use it. Marketshare only matters if you fear the vendor might shut it down, or if you are running ads.