France fines Google $268 million for anti-competitive ad practices

Published June 7, 2021 6:04pm ET



France’s competition watchdog fined Google 220 million euros ($268 million) on Monday for abusing its dominant position in online advertising and succeeded at forcing the search giant to stop some of its self-preferencing practices.

The French Competition Authority said the tech giant’s ad practices, which unfairly pushed businesses to its own services, hurt Google’s competitors, along with publishers of sites and applications that sell their advertising space.

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