Google Risks More Antitrust Probes as EU Patience Snaps
What’s Google Doing to Upset the Europeans?
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Google Inc.’s antitrust complaint from the European Union may provide a template for more cases targeting online travel or mapping, as EU regulators escalated a four-year-old probe into the search-engine giant.
The EU is still “actively looking” at how Google treats searches for hotels, flights and mapping to check allegations that the company also favors its own service over competing results from companies such as Expedia Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc., EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday.