Google Hit with Massive $2.7B Fine by the EU (CNET News)

The search giant was found to breach antitrust rules by favoring its own shopping service in search results.

[darsoulr]

but I'm sure there's some way they get out of actually paying....

[chrisediting]

The best part is the add was a Google add 😂😂😂

[Mr-Safology]

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂Google can't promote their products and services on their own service?😁😁😁😁

[ronanoreilly]

So where does the money from the fine go exactly???

[SpaceRex]

Google should be able to do whatever the hell it wants (assuming it doesn't actually hurt or threaten people) because it built the search engine and owns it. If you're complaining about not being on the first-page search then move over to Bing.

[anaverageyoutubeuser]

The European Soviet Union strikes again.

[ShellymanStudios]

So, Google can't promote their products and service on their own service website? Nice EU...

[dangoonigiri]

Fining $ 2.7B for advertising your service on your website/search engine sounds pretty unethical to me.

[Sacamacama]

Google should pay the 2.7b to EU in pennies just like Samsung did to Apple 🤔

[dakotasimpson]

wtf it's their platform and their being fined for putting their own services on it...wtf eu?

[RickyYTWLD]

This is ridiculous surely? If I made my own mobile OS, I'd want to pre-install my own apps onto it for all users to see. It's not like competitor's apps are hard to find.

[MrCarpediem]

that and now they won't read our emails anymore

[Bryan-ktew]

So now it's a crime to have your company's services appear on your website or operating system?

[joshuadapitan]

Seems they haven't heard of adblock.

[creo]

Google promoted their service in their own product I don't see any problem with Google.

[mitchellwalther]

they dont necessarily have to pay it :p

[ogvibe]

They should fine apple for having Siri on their phones, forcing people to use that terrible assistant

[elmuchachoenamorado]

im telling you everything is going down hill from now on

[PaceyPimp]

Wow antitrust we don't have not had that in the US for years. it's good but i wish it was targeted more to other big corporations.

[TechXSoftware]

Now I don't like to support Google either, but isn't it their site? why can't they do it? Their giving away free search here. Can someone please explain this?