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Google accused of competition abuse in holiday rentals

Google has been accused of unfairly promoting its own holiday rental search engine by more than 30 of its rivals, one of whom has filed an official complaint to the European Commission. A letter to the EU competition commission Margrethe Vestager, signed by 34 companies, including HomeToGo, TripAdvisor, Expedia and eDreams and seen by the FT, accuses Google of harming rivals by elevating its own holiday rental search box. “We see strong indications of a competitive strategy for Google to reduce us and our industry to mere content providers for the ‘one-stop-shop’ of Google’s new product,” the letter said. Read More...

Google has been accused of unfairly promoting its own holiday rental search engine by more than 30 of its rivals, one of whom has filed an official complaint to the European Commission. A letter to the EU competition commission Margrethe Vestager, signed by 34 companies, including HomeToGo, TripAdvisor, Expedia and eDreams and seen by the FT, accuses Google of harming rivals by elevating its own holiday rental search box. “We see strong indications of a competitive strategy for Google to reduce us and our industry to mere content providers for the ‘one-stop-shop’ of Google’s new product,” the letter said.

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