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The Google fine – a blow to the end user and small businesses

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Author: Georgi Zayakov On June 27, the European Commission (EC) imposed an unprecedented fine of 2.4 billion euros on Alphabet, the parent company of internet giant Google. The reason – according to the EC, Google’s search engine favors its own platform “Google Shopping” and harms smaller independent shopping platforms, pushing them significantly further back in the results (often even …

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