Google faces €3bn fine over shopping service

[Little Tich]

Source: The Guardian

European Union believes Google has promoted its own shopping service at the expense of rivals

Google faces a record antitrust fine of about €3bn euros (£2.4bn) from the European commission in the coming weeks, the Sunday Telegraph has said.

The European Union has accused Google of promoting its shopping service in internet searches at the expense of rival offerings in a case that has dragged on since late 2010.

Several people familiar with the matter told Reuters last month they believed that after three failed attempts at a compromise in the past six years Google now had no more plans to try to deal with the allegations unless the EU changed its stance.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/15/google-faces-3bn-fine-over-shopping-service

[cstanleytech]

1. I honestly dont understand this. Why do they believe Google or any company

should try to help a rival company that they are competing against?

[X_Digger]

2. It's like they think google is a public utility. *scratches head*

In other news, amazon promotes books that are sold on their own site, instead of sending you to barnesandnoble.com. Film at 11.

[Mosby]

3. the EU already did this with microsoft

The microsoft attorneys said that the commission just made up laws that didn't exist prior to the action against them.