European Union competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia announced Friday
in a Spanish radio interview that Google’s second round of concessions
in its current antitrust settlement proposal were “unacceptable.” The
main obstacle to settlement is still Google’s treatment of competitors
and its “own content” in “vertical search” results.
Almunia was directly involved in negotiating the original settlement
proposal with Google, which offered to put links to competitors’ sites
in a privileged position in search results. He seemed initially (and
perhaps naively) surprised when it was almost immediately condemned by
European competitors and Google critics during a “market test” comment
period.
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