Signage is displayed in front of Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Alphabet Inc. is pushing efforts to roll back the most comprehensive biometric privacy law in the U.S., even as the company and its peers face heightened scrutiny after the unauthorized sharing of data at Facebook Inc. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
A 60 Minutes segment devoted to assertions that Alphabet Inc’s Google wields a destructive monopoly in online search hammered home the notion of the company’s dominance during a time of heightened public concern with technology giants, while not surfacing new allegations.
The segment on the CBS television programme highlighted how critics and rivals, such as Yelp Inc, are trying to bring Europe’s antitrust approach to Google to the US. Margrathe Vestager, the European Union competition commissioner, told CBS that she is intent on stopping Google’s “illegal behaviour” in search, suggesting that the regulator isn’t appeased with the company’s proposed solution for the hefty charges the EU filed last year.
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