EU Launches Google Investigation

European Union antitrust regulators opened on Tuesday a formal investigation into Google

after rival services complained that the world's No. 1 internet search engine abused its dominant position. The move came more than nine months after British price comparison site Foundem and French legal search engine ejustice.fr alleged Google's search algorithm demoted their sites in Web search results because they were rivals. Microsoft

-owned Ciao, from Bing, also filed a complaint with the European Commission about Google's standard terms and conditions.

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