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EU says Google hurt consumers and competitors in Internet search case

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The European Union accused Google Inc on Wednesday of cheating consumers and competitors by distorting Web search results to favor its own shopping service, after a five-year investigation that could change the rules for business online. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Google, which dominates Internet search engine markets worldwide, had been sent a Statement of Objections – effectively a charge sheet – to which it has 10 weeks to respond.

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Factbox: EU charges Google in Internet search antitrust case – what next?

April 15, 2015 publisher commissioner, competition, google-shopping, houston, internet, julia-fioretti, olivia-marie, release, search-results, vestager, wednesday, wells-fargo

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission charged Google Inc on Wednesday with cheating competitors by distorting Internet search results to favor its own shopping service, and opened a separate investigation into its Android mobile operating system. When the investigation was opened in November 2010, then Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia set out four concerns. The first, to which Wednesday’s statement of objections relates, concerns the way in which Google allegedly positions its Google Shopping service above rivals’ services, irrespective of its merits

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Highlights: EU charges Google over shopping searches, to probe Android

April 15, 2015 admin antitrust-probe, competition, european, google-shopping, internet, olivia-marie, search-results, vestager, wednesday

The European Union accused Google Inc on Wednesday of cheating competitors by distorting Internet search results in favor of its Google Shopping service and also launched an antitrust probe into its Android mobile operating system. “Today’s statement of objections on comparison shopping is of course limited.

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Google sticks to EU only application of ‘right to be forgotten’

January 19, 2015 admin accounts-on-its, chief-legal, continent, european, france-david, internet, key-profit, longer-relevant, mobile-phone, search-results, the-start-up, towards-the-end

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google is only removing search results from European websites when individuals invoke their “right to be forgotten”, contrary to regulators' guidelines, but will review that approach soon, the company's chief legal officer said on Monday. The issue of how far the so-called right to be forgotten should extend has concentrated the minds of Europe's privacy regulators since the continent's top court ruled in May that individuals could have “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” information removed from search results.

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