Google Calls EU’s Demands ‘Peculiar and Problematic’
Google ridiculed as “peculiar and problematic” demands by European Union antitrust regulators to change the way it displays search results.
The U.S. Internet giant on Thursday filed its reply to an EU complaint that accused the company as part of a five-year-long probe of wielding its market power to quell competition in the comparison-shopping market.
The European Commission’s patience with the company snapped in April after three settlement bids failed to satisfy critics. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fired off a so-called statement of objections threatening fines and enforced changes to the way search results are displayed.
