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Jess Kinghorn

The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal

A Google search box with the query: how does google search work.

Odds are that you didn't just stumble across this story via the PC Gamer homepage—it's way more likely that Google had something to do with it. Maybe Google Discover served you this story, or maybe you dove into Google search in a bid to collate all of the news you can find about various government bodies attempting to challenge the search giant's crown. The European Commission is the latest to propose such measures.

Specifically, the European Commission is proposing that Google share its search data with third party search engines. The data would include "ranking, query, click and view data" and ideally be presented "on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" according to the European Commission.

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