Google faces another antitrust complaint in Europe
BEIJING. February 23. KAZINFORM Google faces another antitrust complaint in Europe from the French company 1plusV that Google is abusing its dominant market position to shut out competition, according to the New York Times Wednesday. Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
1plusV, which specializes in creating thematic search engines, complained with the European Commission Tuesday that Google prevented competing search engines from using its adverting service if its search technology was not adopted.
According to1plusV, Google was artificially favoring its own websites, and pushing down other competing search sites in search results.
In a complaint sent to the EC a year ago, the French company claimed that Google de-listed most pages of Ejustice. fr, a French legal website operated by 1plusV, from search results. As a result, hits to Ejustice. fr dropped so sharply that it was almost invisible on the Internet, it added.
"While we have always tried to do the right thing for our users and advertisers, we recognize that there's always room for improvement," said Alistair Verney, a spokesman for Google. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version