What’s Next for Google as Europe’s Antitrust Complaints Increase
- EU regulator files new statements of objections against Google
- Company has weeks to appeal but conversations could last years
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Google’s challenges in Europe became larger on Thursday when the European Union widened and bolstered its antitrust claims against the Alphabet Inc. unit.
European antitrust regulators sent Google two additional "statements of objections," saying that it had collected extensive evidence that the company favors its own comparison-shopping service in its search results and that it prevented customers of one of its popular online advertising services from placing ads with rivals and restricted how rival ads were displayed.