EU: Google Shopping's Primo Placement Is Illegal
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You know when you google "buy leather couch" and there, beneath the paid ads and Google Map results, you see Google Shopping's horizontal row of loveseats and sectionals that you can click on to help refine your search? Yeah, that's illegal now. Again.
Google yesterday lost an appeal to a 2017 EU General Court ruling that the search engine giant violated antitrust law by promoting its shopping service over rivals (a no-no known as "self-preferencing") — and it now has to pay a €2.42 billion fine.
Source Fool.com
