Google Should Face EU Web Law If Probe Fails: Lawmakers

Lawmakers urged the European Union to draft legislation curbing Google Inc. if a five-year antitrust probe fails to make the world’s biggest search engine company behave fairly.

Google’s search engine forms a “critical infrastructure” that should offer a level playing field for all businesses, Andreas Schwab, a German member of the European Parliament, told reporters in Brussels today. Schwab, a member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said he’d prefer that antitrust regulators resolve possible competition problems with Google instead of resorting to legislation.