The penalties relate to an investigation into Google’s Play Store and its tactics around search ranking.
The European Commission is expected to fine Google “hundreds of millions of euros” in a series of findings against the tech giant over the coming week, sources told the Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday (15 July).
The penalties relate to a long-running Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google over to the company’s tactics around search ranking and its app marketplace Google Play.
Last March, the EU shared its preliminary decisions from the probe, finding that some of Google Search’s features treated its parent company Alphabet’s services more favourably compared its competitors.
It found that despite implementing some changes, Alphabet treated its own services, including shopping, transport or financial results, more favourably in Google Search results, and gave its own services more prominent treatment by displaying them on top of the search results.
