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I am not quite sure what to say about this story here:

Search titan Google has been hit with a lawsuit in France with one Bottin Cartographes, a company offering multimedia maps, has filed a complaint with the Paris commercial court regarding the Google Maps service. According to Bottin Cartographes, Google is engaged in unfair business practices as it provides map services for free for a company’s internal use in exchange for the right to sell ads for that company

However Euro 500’000 seems like a very strange number to choose…