Google has been hit with a €1.5bn fine by the EU after a competition probe ruled that the dominant search group had spent 10 years blocking rival online advertisers.
The larger than expected penalty is the third to be imposed on Google by the EU in less than two years — taking the total to €8.2bn and drawing a line under current European antitrust investigations into the US tech group.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said the Alphabet subsidiary had placed anti-competitive restrictions on third-party websites between 2006 and 2016.
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