Raffs

Raffs those fellows always are, sure to bring him to the dogs! '

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Mayence who had been Schopenhauer's only friend, I frequently met her in other people's houses, as for instance at the Raffs in

My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848

The Raffs cite data from HitWise showing that around the time Google Maps traffic first exceeded MapQuest's, more netizens were actively searching for MapQuest - i.e. specifically keying its name into search boxes.

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In their complaint, the Raffs make a pair of arguments.

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The FCC filing and the European complaint arenot about specific penalties, say the Raffs, but about Google's market dominance (they claim it has 90 per cent of the search market in the UK, 85 per cent in the US), and the company's growing practice of pushing its own services to the fore.

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In providing Google Maps and Google Product Search (formerly Froogle) with prime placement on its own search engine, the Raffs argue, Mountain View has exerted discriminatory market power to squeeze out the likes of MapQuest and Pricegrabber.

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The Raffs also argue that with its so-called Universal Search setup, Google is using its search engine monopoly - which controls an estimated 85 per cent of the global market - to unfairly favor its own services over those of its competitors.

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The EU complaint is under seal, but the meat of this argument can be found in the Raffs 'filing with the US Federal Communications Commission.

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We have no certain intelligence that Raffs and the Porte have as yet commenced hoftiiitift, though news to this efteft feems to be hourly ei - peeled by all Europe.

The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany 1783

Rather absurd, wasn't it? but, as I told Leslie about his friends, 'the blunder wasn't so great after all; there was only a vowel between Raffs and Riffs.'"

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839