The European Commission fines Google 2.42 billion euros (2.7 billion U.S. dollars) for abusing its dominance as a search engine by giving illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.

 

因谷歌滥用自身在搜索引擎领域的主导地位，在搜索结果中偏向自身的比价购物服务，欧盟委员会对其罚款24.2亿欧元（27亿美元）。

 

"The European Commission has fined Google 2.42 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) for breaching¹ EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service," a European Union statement said.

 

"Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors," said Commissioner² Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy.

 

What Google has done is illegal under European Union antitrust rules. It denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate³. And most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation, she added.

 

The EU said the company must now end the conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments of up to 5 percent of the average daily worldwide turnover⁴ of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

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