The new punishment adds to Google’s costly headaches in Europe, where it's now been fined three times for a series of antitrust violations.
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has emerged as one of Silicon Valley’s toughest regulators, has fined Google more than $9 billion for antitrust violations. By Tony Romm Tony Romm Staff writer covering technology policy Email Bio Follow March 20 at 7:17 AM European regulators fined Google about $1.
Reacting to the fine, Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, stressed in a statement that the company already has made"a wide range of changes to our products to address the [European] Commission’s concerns.” Google did not say whether it would appeal the E.U. decision. Vestager’s latest punishment targets Google’s relationships with third-party websites, from large retailers to small gossip blogs. Sites that participated in Google’s “AdSense for Search” program could take advantage of Google’s search tools on their Web pages, and users who searched those sites would see results alongside ads served up by Google.
“There was no reason for Google to include these restrictive clauses in their contracts except to keep rivals out of the market,” Vestager said at her news conference.
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