Canada's competition watchdog drops probe into Google


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016

Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Power

TORONTO: Canada's Competition Bureau said that it was dropping an investigation into Google after saying in 2013 that it suspected the company was abusing its dominant position in online search. 

The watchdog said it had found evidence to support one of the allegations against Google but that the company had already made changes to remedy those concerns and agreed not to reintroduce anticompetitive clauses in its contracts. 

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