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Google faces EU competition enquiry

24 February 2010

James Nurton, London

Three companies have complained to the European Commission, alleging that Google breaches antitrust law

Three companies have complained to the European Commission, alleging that Google breaches antitrust law

The companies are a UK price comparison site, Foundem; a French legal search engine, ejustice.fr; and Microsoft’s Ciao! from Bing.

The allegations were revealed in a blog post by Google’s senior competition counsel, Julia Holtz this morning.

They apparently concern Google’s ranking of competitor search engines in its search results and...



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