The European competition watchdog has fined Google €2.42 billion for abusing its dominance as a search engine.
The European Commission was prompted to take action after numerous complaints were made by rival firms such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, UK comparison site Foundem, and News Corp.
In a seven-year long investigation, Google was found to be systematically given prominent placement in searches to its own comparison shopping service and demoted those of rivals in search result.
https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/google-fined-record-e2-4bn-manipulating-shopping-search-results-100633