On July 14, 2016, the EU Commission sent two Statements of Objections to Google and Alphabet (Google’s parent company). With the first Statement, the EU Commission reaffirmed its preliminary conclusion that “Google has abused its dominant position by systematically favouring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages”. With the second Statement, the Commission […]
On April 15, 2015, the EU Commission sent a Statement of Objections to Google alleging that the company infringed EU antitrust rules. According to the Commission, Google abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services in the European Economic Area (EEA) by systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its […]
On June 27, 2017, the EU Commission fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service. The Commission’s fine of €2 424 495 000 takes account of the duration and gravity of […]
Contrary to what is happening in Europe, on November 13, 2014, San Francisco Superior Court ruled – once again – in favor of Google’s right to freely order its search results. In June 2014, the owner of the website CoastNews argued that Google monopolized the search engine business and violated antitrust law. According to the […]