Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The European Union is looking into Google over ongoing concerns that it "demotes" the content of news publishers and other media sites.
On Thursday, the EU's executive arm revealed the action following monitoring that discovered select content by sponsors or advertisers was granted a lower priority by Google Search and that it was less or no longer visible in search queries.
"We are concerned that Google's policies do not allow news publishers to be treated in a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory manner in its search results," according to Teresa Ribera, the European Commission's EVP for clean, just and competitive transition policy.
The commission stated it was investigating parent company Alphabet's supposed demotion of publisher websites and content in Google Search, and if it may "impact publishers' freedom to conduct legitimate business, innovate, and cooperate with third-party content providers."
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