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Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules | The search giant is violating the DMA by giving its Shopping, Hotels, and Flights services preferential treatment
The decision can be challenged ahead of the EU’s final ruling.
“In the first case, our preliminary view is that Alphabet is in breach of the Digital Markets Act by favouring its own products on the Google Search results page, which means suppliers and competitors do not benefit from fair ranking practices,” Teresa Ribera, European executive vice president for clean, just, and competitive transition, says in a statement. The ruling follows rising tensions between European policymakers and US President Donald Trump, who has surrounded himself with fawning US tech CEOs who have criticized fines placed on them by the EU as a form of taxation. The Financial Times reported in January that an increase in US pressure was allegedly leading the EU to soften its approach to big tech regulation and reassess its investigations into Apple, Meta, and Google.
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