Am I missing something? Google search is "just" a very sophisticated algorithm to ranks the pages on internet matching some criteria. If Google doesn't disclose its algorithm and doesn't want to pay the fine ("up to 10% of total global revenue of a search engine business" according to the article), what could France do? Bane Google from the country? Although it would be possible, it would result in a massive loss of productivity for the whole country, since French would have to switch to admittedly inferiors search engines.

I say that as a French expat using duckduckgo as his main search engine.