Paris: The record €2.4 billion fine slapped on Google by the EU for abusing its market dominance “will find its way back to European citizens”, Europe’s competition chief said Saturday. Although the US tech giant has said it expects to appeal, if the European Commission wins, “this fine will return to European citizens” via the governments of the 13 member states involved, European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said on French radio. Brussels has accused the world’s most popular internet search engine of giving an advantage to its Google Shopping service. Google Shopping shows the images and prices of products in response to shopping-related searches when someone uses the search engine. Vestager has said “preliminary conclusions” in the Android and AdSense cases against Google also showed it breached EU rules.

Source: Mint July 01, 2017 14:15 UTC