Google faces European co mpetition inquiry

The European Commission is looking into complaints about Google's behaviour, the company has revealed. The complaints were made by UK price comparison site Foundem, French legal search engine ejustice.fr, and Microsoft's Ciao.

Google's senior competition lawyer Julia Holtz said the internet giant was "confident" it operated within European competition law. Foundem claims that its site is demoted in Google's search results.

"Foundem... argues that our algorithms demote their site in our results because they are a vertical search engine and so a direct competitor to Google," Google said.

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