Google dismisses European commission Shopping charges as 'wrong'
by Samuel Gibbs from on (#20962)
Latest response in long-running antitrust case over price comparison tools says renewed charges are not in users' interests
Google has responded to the European commission's (EC) renewed statement of objections, declaring its case against Google Shopping to be "wrong on the facts, the law, and the economics" and dismissing it as just "the interests of a small number of websites".
The seven-year case revolves around the charge that the market dominance of Google within search is being used to leverage its price comparison service to the detriment of third-party sites.
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