Google Loses EU Court Fight Over €2.4 Billion Antitrust Fine

  • EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case
  • Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position
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Google lost its bid to topple a once-record €2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) European Union fine for abusing its monopoly power to crush rival shopping services.

The EU’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2017 decision, which found the US tech giant illegally leveraged its search-engine dominance to give a higher ranking to its own product listings.