Alphabet unit Google will be accused of violating EU rules aimed at checking powers for large technologies after proposing to change its search results fail to address concerns among EU antitrust antitrust regulators and their competitors’ concerns, three directly understand the matter people said. .
The European Commission’s move comes amid tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump, who supports U.S. tech giants lobbying against EU regulations and criticizes fines as a form of tariffs. This in turn raises concerns that EU regulators may ease large-scale technologies.
Since March last year, the European Commission has been investigating Google’s potential violations of the Digital Markets Act.
One survey focused on whether Google is superior to its competitors using its vertical search engines such as Google Shopping, Google Flights and Google Hotels, and whether it discriminates against third-party services on Google search results.
The people said the looming allegations involved this issue.
EU competition regulators declined to comment. Google mentioned its December blog post, Oliver Bethell, which supervised the EMEA competition, and he said the company is working to find a balanced solution with the committee.
More changes in Google’s search results format to appease competitors may lead to the removal of certain useful features, Bessel said.
The U.S. tech giant has announced a series of changes to the format of search results in recent months to address the contradictory demands of price comparison locations, hotels, airlines and small retailers. Most of them believe that these proposals are not DMA-compliant.
EU antitrust regulators are also unhappy with Google’s threat, bringing the blue link back to search results if Google can’t address competitors’ needs, one of the sources said.
The DMA prohibits Google from favoring its products and services on its platform or facing a 10% fine on its global annual revenue.
One of the sources said that DMA charges are likely to be sent to Google after a separate investigation of Apple and the meta platform in the decisions in the coming months, which is more advanced.
Another DMA survey conducted on Google is the purpose of potential limitations that prevent app developers from informing users of quotes outside the Google App Store for free.
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