Regarding search: I'm just sick of this issue. I get that Google has an extreme dominance in the EU market, but I don't see how they would be at fault in that situation. Switching to another search provider is free and takes five seconds. Bing and Yahoo are even easier to type.
I think you are completely right here, concerning market share itself. The main reason why in EU Bing is not popular, is that it is just worse than Google in returning EU-relevant/local search results. I too don't see how Google is, from this specific respect, preventing anyone else to compete. Also, Bing is improving by the day, and I am quite positive over time they will gain share.
How and if Google decides to return search results, and if it is being anti-competitive there, may be an issue, but it is a completely different one and I don't see how it hurts Bing. Actually, if Google was found guilty, that would help the competition.
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