‘The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine,’ said the EU’s Teresa Ribera on today’s decisions.
The European Commission has hit Google with €890m in fines for breaching the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) through Google Search and the Google Play app store.
Google was issued two fines today (23 July) – one for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search and the other for preventing app developers from directing consumers to alternative purchase channels on Google Play.
The two fines are to the value of €460m and €430m respectively.
“The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine,” said Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for clean, just and competitive transition.
