Google investigated by the European Commission

As part of the investigation conducted by the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission for alleged anticompetitive practices by Google, the company agreed to a series of commitments to close the case without infringement proceedings having to be opened. OCU wrote to the European Commission, together with its European BEUC partners, stating that such commitments were insufficient to ensure the neutrality of the searches performed via Google, that is, to prevent Google from favouring in search results conducted through its search engine products and services offered by this company compared to those offered by other companies.