The accusations base from the rivals of Google particularly in websites for shopping. The commission issues some formal charges as statements of objections.
In 2013 the Federal Trade Commission in United States investigated a similar complaints against some antitrust activities from Google, but without taking any action and was closed that inquiry. However the company may not be so lucky in Europe, because Google has a 92% plus share in the EU market comparing to the 3% in Bing, 2% Yahoo, 1% Yandex and 2% others.
Also there are other complaints from EU about google too in terms of: the accusations of tax avoidance, some publishing conflicts in Spain that Google refused to pay up for linking articles by Spanish publishers and the right to be forgotten following a ruling from the Supreme Court in 13 of may 2014
Last but not least are some companies investigating Google´s business practices inside and outside Europe such as Taiwan, Brazil, Canada and India.
Written by: Sandra Sánchez
Sources:
http://fortune.com/2015/03/20/google-antitrust-europe/
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-expected-to-face-antitrust-charges-in-europe-next-month-2015-3
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