Close to being sanctioned by the EU, Google list her arguments – Clubic.com

The investigation by the European Commission on the practices of Google coming to an end. The Californian giant should be sanctioned in the course of the week

Google is about to be fined by the Committee of European competition. The company is accused of maintaining an abuse of dominant position in the research sector with 90 to 95% of market share. In addition, Google largely favor its own services within its engine at the expense of competition.

After a five-year investigation, the European Commission is expected to announce sanctions against Google. The company may have to pay a fine of $ 6 billion, or 10% of its turnover in the last year. Google explains indeed be disappointed with the EU’s position and sent a letter to all employees in order to draw them a list of arguments to refute all the points raised by the European Commission.

Regarding the field of online search, Google said it had largely optimized its engine on the past 16 years including extracting data from third-party sites to return them directly to users. This practice was pointed by several complainants since Google expands its engine with external content while depriving these traffic sites.

The company says that despite its high market share, there are many alternatives to its search engine , be it Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, virtual assistants or type Cortana Siri or specialized directories like Amazon, Expedia or Ebay. Remains that once again the search giant has previously taken the classification of products made by Amazon for use on its platform, all by including the opinions of Internet users and their notes. Google did the same with Yelp. According to the company, the competition is indeed present, especially in the trade sector online.

In his letter to employees, the company explained that a survey will be conducted on Android. Google then explains that his system has brought down the price of handsets while offering some diversity to consumers. The company added that its OS is open source and freely distributed to anyone. It is known, however, that Google has very restrictive agreements with partners so that it can benefit from Google Play.

For Google, Android is also an important source of income for developers with over 7 billion donated over the last year. Google says that consumers can choose the applications of their choice even those offering alternatives to Google services. Through a document we still learned that society imposes on manufacturers preinstall several of its applications and give them maximum visibility for the Google Play certification. OEMs are however not obliged to deliver their terminals with the application of competition

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