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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10762

12 January 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Almunia says Google is “diverting traffic” to own services

Brussels, 11/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with the Financial Times on 10 January 2013, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia said: “My conviction is that Google are diverting traffic” and abusing its dominant position on the market. Google is the world's biggest online search engine and at the top of search results it lists its own services, such as bank cards, ticket price comparisons and the like. The US giant was absolved of this by the Federal Trade Commission in...

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