Google loses final EU court appeal in antitrust shopping case

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Google has lost its final legal challenge against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The European Union penalty was one of three multibillion-euro fines the commission imposed on Google in the past decade as Brussels ramped up its crackdown on the tech industry.

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VERBATIM: The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a huge fine. The court dismissed the company’s appeal against the $2.7 billion penalty from the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer. The commission’s original decision in 2017 accused Google of unfairly directing visitors to its Google Shopping service to the detriment of competitors.