BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union regulators have hit Google with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.68 billion) fine for abusing its dominant role in online advertising.
The EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced the results of the long-running probe of Google’s AdSense advertising business case at a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
It’s the third time the commission has slapped Google with an antitrust penalty, following multibillion-dollar fines resulting from separate probes into two other parts of the Silicon Valley giant’s business.
Last year Vestager hit the company with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion) fine following an investigation into its Android operating system.
In 2017, she slapped Google with a 2.42 billion euro fine in a case involving its online shopping search results.
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