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Google offers more EU concessions

Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible US$5 billion fine, the European Commission said yesterday.

The new proposal comes two months after the Commission, which is the European Union’s antitrust regulator, asked the world’s most popular search engine for more measures to sooth concerns that it was blocking competitors, including Microsoft, in web search results.

“The Commission received a proposal from Google and is assessing it,” EU Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said. He did not provide details nor say if rivals would be allowed to assess the concessions.

Lobbying group FairSearch, whose members include Microsoft and other complainants such as online travel agency Expedia, British price comparison site Foundem and France’s Twenga, urged the Commission to seek feedback from rivals.

 

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