EU crackdown threatens to return Google to ‘ten blue link’ era


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 28 Jun 2017

The sign marking the Google offices is lit up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., June 27, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Google's search results page has evolved a lot in the almost two decades since its debut. A crackdown by European regulators threatens to force Google to backtrack on upgrades to that real estate, some of the most lucrative on the Web. 

European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager fined Alphabet Inc's Google a record US$2.7bil (RM11.60bil) on June 27 for favouring its own shopping service in search results. Google in-house lawyer Kent Walker denied wrongdoing in a blog post and said the company was considering an appeal. 

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