Google may be about to face some actual consequences for promoting its own stuff

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR EU regulators want to see Google Search stop prioritizing Google services over those offered by third parties. Last fall Google tested removing rich hotel booking options from Search, but soon abandoned that effort. Now the EU may be about to formally charge Google for violating Digital Markets Act anti-competition rules. Google’s pretty much always facing legal or regulatory obstacles from somewhere, and over the years we’ve seen the company bob and weave through an onslaught of challenges. Recently, though, it’s been confronted by what may be its most formidable opponent to date, in the form of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). With strict rules in place to ensure healthy competition, and means to enforce consequences that actually have some teeth, the DMA has been hanging over Google’s European operations like the sword of Damocles since it went into effect last spring. And now a new report suggests that Google could finally be about to ... Read full article.