Google gets extended deadline to answer EU case

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Brussels has given Google an extension until mid-August to answer an anti-trust case alleging that the tech giant abuses its search engine's market dominance, a company spokesman said today.

Google gets extended deadline to answer EU case

The US firm had initially had ten weeks after the European Commission lodged the case in mid-April to respond but has now been given to August 17.

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The announcement of charges followed a five-year investigation into whether Google's preferential use of its own shopping product in its search engine could be harmful to consumers and competitors.

Google gets extended deadline to answer EU case

"We asked the European Commission for extra time to examine documents that they have given us. They put back the deadline until August 17," spokesman Al Verney said. Google accounts for 90 per cent of the online search market in Europe.

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The EU is concerned that Google's retail competitors like travel portal TripAdvisor or business review site Yelp could be squeezed out as a result of Google's dominance. The California Internet company could face huge fines if found culpable, as much as 10 percent of its USD 66 billion (59 billion euros) in worldwide turnover last year.

Source: IANS

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