The European Union intends to oblige the company Google to stop paying their Android terminal manufacturing partners to promote Google Search. At the moment, those from Google pay various amounts of money to the partners producing Android terminals for Google Search to be the default search engine on smartphones or tablets.
The European Union warned Google that it risks major fines if it continues this practice, although it is not limited to the Android platform, which it created. Google pays 1 billion dollars annually to Apple for Google Search to be Safari's default search engine, although the amounts paid to Android partners are smaller.
In a document of over 150 pages, the European Union accused Google of abusing the dominant position of the Android operating system. Google is using it to create a monopoly in terms of web searches, and the European Union is trying to create a competitive market for all companies.
Google forced to stop paying for Google Search promotion
Google Play Store is also in the attention of the European Union, the application store being pre-installed in all Android terminals sold on the market. Although there are many other application stores, they do not really reach the Android terminals sold in Europe, or in various other areas of the planet, with the exception of Asia.
Moreover, the European Union wants to prevent Google from punishing its Android partners for not complying with the restrictions imposed by it. Those from Google are abusing their dominant position to promote their Google Search search engine, which is easy to understand, but blamed by the European Commission.
The whole investigation started from a lobby group called FairSearch, which is composed of multiple companies that created online search engines. They want to have the same opportunities as Google in terms of customer service, but it is unlikely that this will ever happen.
