Google Loses Court Challenge Against EU Antitrust Ruling

Alphabet unit Google suffered a setback on Wednesday after Europe’s second-highest courtroom dismissed its problem to an EU antitrust ruling and EUR 2.42 billion (roughly Rs. 20,820 crore) nice in a significant win for EU competitors chief Margrethe Vestager.

Vestager sanctioned the world’s hottest web search engine in 2017 for favouring its personal price-comparison buying service to offer it an unfair benefit towards smaller European rivals.

The buying case was the primary of a trio of choices which have seen Google rack up a complete of EUR 8.25 billion (roughly Rs. 70,890 crore) in EU antitrust fines within the final decade. Vestager subsequently took on Amazon, Apple, and Meta, the place investigations are nonetheless ongoing.

“The General Court largely dismisses Google’s action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service over competing comparison shopping services,” the Court mentioned.

Google can attraction to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), Europe’s prime courtroom, on factors of legislation.

The case is T-612/17 Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Shopping).

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