Google Alphabet's EU antitrust bill exceeds eight billion euros

Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) may have to stump up nearly €2.5 million in antitrust fines handed out by the European Commission over its anticompetitive shopping practices. In 2017, the Commission determined that the results of product searches made using Google’s general search engine were positioned and displayed in a more eye-catching manner when the results came from Google’s own comparison shopping service than when they came from competing comparison shopping services. Moreover, competing r ...