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New Accusations of Dominance Abuse  26 April 2012 BY   According
to the Guardian Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Russia’s leading
search engine, Yandex, has said Google is “abusing its dominance
to shut out competitors in cyberspace”. Segalovich places his
remarks in response to comments made by Sergey Brin almost two
weeks ago in the same Guardian where he said web freedom is
facing big threats.  Interestingly enough Brin apologized for
the words he used in that specific interview only a few days
after the interview on his Google+ page.  The Yandex’ founders
remark is another sign that Google has some hurdles to take in
Europe when it comes to the image of their dominance.  The
remarks are largely aimed at Android, which has been under fire
for the past few days with an Oracle patent case going against
them. According to Segalovich Android is a “strange combination
of openness and n