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India hits Google with $21 million fine for search bias

posted onFebruary 9, 2018
by l33tdawg

Google is certainly no stranger to accusations of abusing its position to its own advantage, and the company has now been fined 1.36 billion rupees ($21.17 million) by India's antitrust watchdog.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said Google was guilty of "search bias" and had been abusing its dominance in online web search and online search advertising. Particular criticism was leveled at Google's promotion of its own flight search page.

The commission found that Google was using "its dominance in the market for online general web search to strengthen its position in the market for online syndicate search services" while competitors "were denied access to the online search syndication services market due to such a conduct." Google dismissed the "narrow concerns identified by the commission."

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