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European publishing giant accuses 'monopolistic' Google of building 'superstate'

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Mathias Dopfner, head of Europe's largest newspaper publisher, has accused Google of abusing the monopoly in market, discriminating the other search engines.

Dopfner sent a letter to Google's Eric Shmidt, saying that the US company was discriminating against the competitors, and stated Google's moto as 'pay us or be finished'

According to The Guardian, Dopfner admitted that even he was scared, because his company too relied on Google.

He added that Google knew everything about their customers, and all the private and business emails were also read and analyzed by Gmail when needed.

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First Published: Apr 17 2014 | 6:17 PM IST

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