Google in Trouble Part 2

As you may have read in my previous blog Google in Trouble, here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co... after seven years of investigation for Google manipulating search results despite stating that it is automatically done by their sophisticated algorithm, list of evidence and reports lined up proving that search results have been regularly tempered with to their own favor.

Google has been fined 2.42 Billion Euros by Brussels and given an ultimatum to make changes or will have to pay more.

"The European Commission said that the business, owned by the American company Alphabet, put its own shopping service at “illegal advantage”. The commission has given Google 90 days to stop this or face fines of up to 5 per cent of Alphabet’s average daily worldwide turnover."

While Google has a list of genius and often free products that make our lives and businesses easier it has abused it's search engine to promote it's own products and pushing back others.

“What Google has done is illegal under EU antitrust rules. [...] It denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation.”

The EU regulators also charged Google for using their mobile app, Android to destroy rivals.

The fine Google has to pay is the largest a company ever had to pay in the EU and if they will not make the required changes within 90 days Alphabet will have to dish out 5% of their daily profit until it's done.

"It is the first time that one of the big competition regulators has taken penal action against Google, which has consistently denied any wrongdoing."

Source: The Times