EU: Antitrust investigation against Google
The European Union has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google's online search service. As the European Commission announced on Tuesday, it is examining whether the search engine operator has abused its dominant market position.
The reason for this are complaints from other online search services that they are at a disadvantage in both paid and unpaid search results. The EU competition authorities are also investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant market position. For example, the US company may have forced its partners to place certain competing advertisements on their own sites in advertising contracts. At the same time, the Commission emphasized that it has not yet been able to prove any illegal activity. Google had rejected the allegations made by competitors.
