Google faces more EU competition complaints - report

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Google faces more EU competition complaints - report
Google faces a total of nine antitrust complaints which EU regulators are now investigating, two unnamed sources told Reuters. The European Commission has up to now only confirmed four cases against Google. According to one of the news agency's sources, the new complaints come from small companies, while the other sources said that three cases came from national regulators while two were fresh complaints. The Commission opened an investigation into Google in November last year following allegations by three small companies that Google demoted their sites in search engines because they were rivals. Microsoft filed its first-ever complaint to the European Commission in March this year, claiming that Google systematically blocked internet search competition. The US Federal Trade Commission is also investigating Google following accusations that it abused its market dominance. The US Senate's antitrust panel will hold a hearing on Google's market clout on 21 September.

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