Shopping rivals urge EU to act against Google for allegedly favoring own service

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Forty-one European price-comparison shopping services on Thursday urged EU antit...

BRUSSELS - Forty-one European price-comparison shopping services on Thursday urged EU antitrust regulators to act against Alphabet Inc’s Google for allegedly flouting an order to allow rivals to compete on equal terms, which they said is endangering their existence.

The companies, in a joint letter to Vestager seen by Reuters, said that Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, has yet to comply with a 2017 order to stop favoring its own price comparison shopping service. Google was also fined 2.4 billion euros at the time. They said Google’s proposal to allow competitors to bid for advertising space at the top of a search page has not boosted traffic to their sites.

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