Google is once again in the spotlight, this time for its job search service Google for Jobs . Prompted by a joint letter sent in early August by around twenty European job search sites, Brussels has been forced to investigate whether the company is abusing its dominant position in this business as well, favouring its employment service over other competing platforms. Google has already collected a significant list of fines from this body, which risks increasing when this new investigation comes to an end.
may have happened armenia phone number with other parts of Google's business, such as the job search business known as Google for Jobs,» said Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager during a conference in Berlin, according to Expansión . Vestager made it clear that there is an «obvious temptation to adjust the way they work to favour their own services ,» as well as the European Union's objective of regulating large companies like Google and once and for all ending bad practices that affect free competition.
The list of Google fines
Google's advertising platform, AdSense , was also caught up in the controversy and, after an exhaustive investigation, Brussels fined Google in March this year for imposing "restrictive clauses" on websites that prevented its competitors from placing search ads on those pages. The sum amounted to 1.49 billion euros.
This figure was added to the fine imposed in 2018 ( 4 billion euros ) for forcing manufacturers that use Android to pre-install their applications, and to the one in 2017 to Google Shopping , which reached 2.424 billion euros , for abusing its dominant position with its online shopping comparator.