Google has responded to the European commission’s (EC) renewed statement of objections, declaring its case against Google Shopping to be “wrong on the facts, the law, and the economics” and dismissing it as just “the interests of a small number of websites”. It also said that the exclusion of retailers such as Amazon and eBay from the case was wrong, as they compete with price comparison sites also, despite paying for referral traffic. A Google spokesperson said: “We remain confident that these claims lack evidence and are wrong on the facts, the law, and the economics. New, reinforcing charges in the Google Shopping case were then filed by the EC in July this year, which also included charges against Adsense. Google is also facing antitrust charges against its Android mobile operating system, which runs on the majority of smartphones globally.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2016 15:22 UTC