" I said before there are THOUSANDS. A talented programmer could create a Google type search site that lists sites in an Afternoon" As a programmer, just, no. Google has one of the most complex algorithms in history to do query -> sites
In an afternoon you would get a search engine that sucks so bad not even your dog would want to use it ;)
Now about the fine, I get what you are saying but they did not hide only that, they also hid proton mail a crypted mail service and a few others.
And in europe there is the "unfair advantage" basically if google dominates everything and kills every single competitor right in the egg it's illegal. Hence google got fined.
But more importantly, do you want to live in a world where google and other big companies decide what sites you should look at ? Where you can't find some alternatives and you are forced to give all your private informations to these companies because they bully everyone else into leaving ?
I don't. So whether this fine is legit or not, I'm glad they did this.