EUROPEAN COMMISSION For Google, Monopoly complaint

The European Commission finally stepped in to investigate Google.

Complaints addressed to Google is a monopoly.

Indeed, as the AP and AFP news on Tuesday (30/11/2010), the UK price comparison sites and search engines Foundem French legal issues ejustice.fr filed a formal complaint. Both are grumpy because Google considers abusing its dominant position.

Be, the European Commission said it would investigate whether the world's largest search engine was downgraded rival companies in Google's search results.

On the other hand, Google said it would cooperate with the European Commission to handle a variety of unrest.

Earlier this year the Texas state attorney general in the United States launched a similar investigation after a number of companies, including Foundem, filed a complaint.

Complaints in both cases these investigations were from companies that blamed rival Google Google manipulates search results. "The European Commission decided to open an antitrust investigation of allegations that Google is abusing its dominant position in online search," said commission.

"Since the beginning of Google to work hard doing the right thing for our users and for this industry," said a statement written by Google.

"But there's always room for improvement, so we will cooperate with the Commission to address this issue," the voice of Google.