The European Commission has announced its decision to fine Google EUR 2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. The decision is based on the Commission's findings that Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service. In particular, the Commission found that: Google has systematically given prominent placement to its own comparison shopping service: when a consumer enters a query into the Google search engine in relation to which Google's comparison shopping service wants to show results, these are displayed at or near the top of the...