EU accuses Google of paying “large sums” to maintain its dominance in searches

“The reason they partnered with Google isn’t because they have to, it’s because they want to,” Schmidtlein argued, adding that Google succeeded “by doing something incredibly valuable. Competition is not illegal.

According to information from the data analysis firm, Statcounter, in the month of August of this year it was shown that the Google search engine is ahead by a large margin, as it registered 92% of the market share Worldwide.

This lawsuit against Google was filed in October 2020 and was one of the efforts of the Trump administration to control the power of technology companies, which have continued in the government of Joe Biden.

In this regard, this Thursday the White House presented six principles to reform large technology companies, which received bipartisan support for being “clear rules to ensure that small and medium-sized companies can compete on equal terms.”

The antitrust legislation is intended to control the four technology giants in the United States: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, which will be prevented, among other issues, from favoring their own businesses to the detriment of smaller ones.