The European Commission could you bring charges against Google from the dominant position in the market for Web browsers that holds the company and use in their favor over other services, as He assumed – could be one of the largest antitrust action after action against Microsoft
It is expected that this Wednesday, Margrethte Vestager, European official in charge of competition, announced in Brussels that Google has abused its place. leadership.
According to Tuesday’s New York Times, the decision to proceed with a declaration is drawn objections is the latest step in an extensive research on acividades of Google in Europe, from which it follows that US giant covers 90 percent of the search engine market in the region. If successful, the action could make Google faces a huge and is forced to alter their algorithm to give smaller competitors like Yelp’s relevance in their own searches fine.
The fact that studies on the case have lasted for nearly five years without formal charges will rise or reach an agreement, had thought that the antitrust efforts in the region were too “soft” for Google, who according to the results using your browser abused to promote their own products. In Europe, even more dominant position in the United States, where competitors like Bing still keep a share of the cake.
The truth is that if Google fails to rebut any formal charge of the that could be expected to be presented on Wednesday, the Commission could impose a fine which reached over 6,400 million, an amount that represents approximately 10 percent of earnings last year of Google.
It would be the highest, even individual demand. Until now, most has been to 1,100 million euros applied to Intel in 2009 for abusing its dominant market of PC chips and processors. For Microsoft does not count here because although ended up paying a total of 2,000 million euros in penalties, the signature of Bill Gates did over a decade and from numerous lawsuits.
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