The European Commission announced today it will fine a total of Google €890 million—or about $1 billion—for two violations of the EU's Digital Markets Act. The Search giant has 60 days to either address the violations or risk further penalty payments of "up to 5% of its total worldwide turnover" in the future.
The Commission explained it is fining Google for "self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place restrictions on businesses to direct consumers to alternative, often cheaper, purchase channels on Google Play (steering)." These two violations have resulted in a fine of €460 million and a fine of €430 million respectively.
Google has already begun work to redress these DMA violations by beginning to test "changes to how it presents its own services on Google Search for free services such as shopping, hotels and flights."
The company will also review how it "presents shopping ads and content related services,...
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