Google Bows to EU, Rivals With Android Choice-Screen Tweaks
- Company will show more mobile search apps and get rid of a fee
- Google has faced criticism over compliance with an EU order
Google Pixel 5 smartphone
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Google will scrap a fee and add more mobile search apps for users to choose from on new Android phones, bowing to pressure from the European Union and smaller rivals.
The U.S. tech giant will make the changes from September “following further feedback” from the European Commission, it said in a Tuesday blog post. The EU authority said the tweaks were “positive” and addressed a number of complaints by other search companies.