EU Crackdown Threatens to Return Google to ‘Ten Blue Link’ Era
Google has a few months to produce a solution that appeases the region's antitrust regulator
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Google's search results page has evolved a lot in the almost two decades since its debut. A crackdown by European regulators threatens to force Google to backtrack on upgrades to that real estate, some of the most lucrative on the web.
European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google a record $2.7 billion on Tuesday for favoring its own shopping service in search results. Google in-house lawyer Kent Walker denied wrongdoing in a blog post and said the company was considering an appeal.