Google was fined a record €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) by European Union regulators for skewing search results in its own favor to boost its shopping search service, Bloomberg News reports on Tuesday.
Google “abused its market dominance” by systematically favoring its own comparison-shopping service in its general search results, the European Commission said in a statement in Brussels on Tuesday.
The firm was given 90 days to end the abusive behavior “or face penalty payments of up to 5 percent of the average daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google’s parent company,” the EU said.
The EU opened search case in 2010 and is also probing Google’s Android mobile-phone software and AdSense online advertising service.
* Reuters
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