Google is one of the largest IT companies on the planet, but in Europe it has very big problems because The European Commission intends to fine him 3 billion euros because of the way the Google.com search engine works.
According to an investigation by the European Commission, Google abused the dominant position it has on the search engine market, and as a consequence a fine of 3 billion euros will be applied as a penalty, but also to discourage other companies from acting as.
The largest fine applied by the European Commission is 1.1 billion euros and dates from 2009, but in the case of Google it will be almost 3 times higher, and this is because Google would have illegally promoted its own shopping results instead those of competitors.
Google, of course, denied the accusations of the European Commission and could challenge the fine that is to be applied to it, but Intel acted in the same way and only succeeded in postponing its application, the fine being paid to the European Commission anyway after 2 years of legal disputes.
Google faces a record-breaking fine for monopoly abuse within weeks, as officials in Brussels put the finishing touches to a seven-year investigation of the company's dominant search engine. It is understood that the European Commission is aiming to hit Google with a fine in the region of €3bn.
The European Commission intends to issue the fine in the coming weeks, the 7-year investigation leading to this result, and Google would be forced to change the way Google.com operates in Europe to avoid other similar fines.
This fine could still be just one of those that Google would receive from the European Commission, because a separate investigation of the Android platform could have the same purpose for those from Mountain View in a few years.
