Google It tends to be news practically daily, and on some days like today for things that are not too pleasant, especially for the search giant. And is that the European Commission has fined him a historical figure of nothing more and nothing less than 2420 billion euros. The reason is because of an abuse of dominant position with your search engine.
A little more detailed, it is due to the service that Google provides with its shopping comparison service, known as Google Shopping, from which an illegal advantage is given within the searches carried out through Google Search. In other words, the search engine unfairly positioned some of its products above those of its competitors.
In the words of Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition; “Google has developed many innovative products and services that have changed our lives. That's good. But Google's strategy for its comparison shopping service wasn't just about attracting customers by making its own products better than those of its rivals. Instead, Google has abused its dominant position in the market as a search engine to promote its own comparison shopping service in search results and hurt those of its competitors. What Google has done is illegal.
Starting today Google has 90 days to end this practice and correct all errors made. Otherwise you would risk a new fine that could be up to 5% of the daily income worldwide of A, the parent company of the search giant.
We will have to wait to see how this case evolves and if Google ends up paying integrates what is the largest fine ever imposed by the European Commission.