The European Commission has opened an investigation into Google’s job search tool on competition grounds, having identified a conflict of interest. The Commission can also start a formal procedure if there is sufficient evidence against Google. The Commission is trying to determine if the group is giving its own jobs listing platform a priority over competitors within Google search results. In the recent past google has been accused of the same and has also been asked to pay fines accordingly and this is the third time it will be going through the same treatment. It happened in July 2017 and July 2018 where it had to pay fines. The Commission spokeswoman commented on earlier probes of Google services, saying that “what the Commission has found is that those different specialized services have some things in common — but they also have important differences”.
This post has been authored by Gaurav Agarwal, Third Year, National University of Juridical Sciences.
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