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Cleary, CC and Covington lead as EC fine Google €2.4bn for abuse of dominance in online shopping comparison

Cleary, CC and Covington lead as EC fine Google €2.4bn for abuse of dominance in online shopping comparison
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27 June 2017
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The European Commission (EC) has today (27 June) fined Google €2.4bn for abuse of dominance as a search engine, illegally promoting its own comparison shopping service above others in breach of antitrust law, creating expectations of a raft of damages claims based on the finding.

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