Economics
Google Attacks EU Case That ‘Doesn’t Fit the Reality’
- Search giant responds to EU statements of objections
- Says EU fails to see Amazon and EBay are key competitors
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Google poured scorn on European Union allegations it skewed shopping search results to favor its own services and said regulators have failed to see that the search-engine giant is competing head on with e-commerce giants Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc.
Google said Thursday that the EU’s allegations lack evidence and would ultimately harm users in favor “of a small number of websites,” in a blog posting detailing its response to European Commission antitrust objections over its comparison-shopping and AdSense services.