Google is fined £2.1billion for skewing search results in favour of its own shopping services, paving the way for rivals to sue the tech giants

Google has been slapped with a record £2.1billion fine for skewing search results in favour of its own shopping services in a fresh blow to the US web giant.
The European Commission’s decision to levy the record penalty for breaking anti-trust laws is likely to anger US President Donald Trump.
And the web giant now faces a string of legal cases from rivals claiming their businesses have been harmed by its actions.
EC competition chief Margrethe Vestager said Google had ‘abused its market dominance’ as the world’s most popular search engine.
‘What Google has done is illegal under EU antitrust rules. It denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate,’ she said.
‘And most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation.’
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