Google Fined £2.1 Billion By The EU For Manipulating Search Results

It goes without saying – Google’s flagship product is the search engine. The multinational corporation is believed to turn entrepreneurs dollars into dreams by promoting their products through ‘search’. But are Google abusing their power by giving their own items an illegitimate advantage?

The European Union (EU) has ultimately laid down the law to Google, following a 7 year investigation into the corporation unfairly promoting its own products so they appear at the top of the search bar.

The search giant has recently been found guilty and sentenced with the ‘largest penalty to date against a company accused of distorting the market’ – an enormous £2.1 billion fee has been dropped on Google, after they left a paper trail of them breaching the EU antitrust law.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, the competition policy manager, expressed:

Besides the penalty, The European Commission has also ordered Google to cease its declared anti-competitive practices; measures put in place in the future by Google will guarantee the rival-filled search engine marketplace is giving all businesses fair treatment.

Google has been given 90 days to comply with the European Union’s orders or they’ll be faced with a further penalty.

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