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Google may have to pay a penalty of over 4 billion euro for search engine dominance

Recently, the EU court has largely upheld the ruling against Google regarding the anti-trust issue that the company was accused of in 2018. As per the final verdict, the European General Court has confirmed the European Commission's original ruling by reducing the fine, just slightly.   Google was accused of imposing anti-competition contractual restrictions on the Android mobile device makers. The manufacturers were required to pre-install Google Search App and Chrome browser to be able to offer Google Play Store. They were not allowed to install forked version of android on the mobile devices.  In 2018, the European Commission had fined Google with record EUR 4.34 billion based on the accusation that Google had cemented its dominance in general internet search, at a time when the importance of mobile internet was growing significantly.  However, Google in its defence, says, that Android has only created more options for the users, thus supporting thousands of ...