Google Offers to Change Search Page to Settle EU Probe

Google Inc. offered to change the way it operates its search page by “clearly” distinguishing its own search services from those of rivals for five years in a bid to settle an antitrust investigation by the European Union.

The owner of the world’s largest search engine offered to label Google-branded search services and show links “to three rival specialized search services close to its own” ones as part of a series of commitments to end the almost three-year-old probe, the EU said in a statement.