EU Seeks Feedback on Google's Attempt to Avert New Antitrust Probes
- People say regulators are asking about local and jobs search
- Companies asked to comment on how rival websites are displayed
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European Union officials have been seeking feedback on Google’s efforts to shut down two nascent antitrust probes into local business and jobs searches, three people said.
Google started showing some users a box with links to rival websites in March on top of normal search results, several months after the EU started examining complaints that less search traffic goes to those sites. The Alphabet Inc. unit has already paid the EU more than $9 billion in fines for antitrust violations.