Google Europoje atleidop gniaužtus

Google nusileido europiečiams ir pažadėjo į paiešką mažiau kimšti savo valdomus servisus.

The Commission's objective is to address the four competition concerns it has identified during its investigation. The aim is to restore quickly the conditions for competition on the merits in the areas of specialised search and search advertising to the benefit of consumers. In the field of specialised search, the Commission's aim is not to artificially send traffic to sites that compete with Google, but to ensure that users are well informed of the existence of these competing sites and of their relevance to the user's queries, and are given the possibility to access them.

The advantage of a decision that would turn Google's proposed commitments into legally binding obligations is that it would have a material impact in the market sooner than if the Commission were to pursue adversarial proceedings. Commitments are carefully monitored by the Commission and non-compliance with them can lead to significant fines.

1) The first concern relates to the way Google displays specialised search services (such as hotel, restaurant or flight search engines) on its own web search results pages. Within its web search results, Google displays its own specialised search services more favourably than competing services. In many instances, relevant competing services are as a consequence more difficult for the user to find. Users are not informed of this favourable treatment of Google's own services.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-87_en.htm