More problems for Google in Europe: the Swedish developer of the price comparison service PriceRunner has announced the filing of a lawsuit against Googlein which asks those of Mountain View for compensation of 2,100 million euros for favoring its comparison shopping services over those of its rivals. The company has made the decision after last November, the General Court of the European Union made the decision to impose a record fine of 2,420 million euros on Google for favoring its product comparison engines.
From PriceRunner they allege that Google has a position very similar to a monopoly in Europe, and its managers believe that it has not yet complied with the decision of the European Commission. Therefore, follow «abusing their dominant position«. Because of this, they claim that traffic and profits are diverted from them and other shopping services, and that the offers Google places are higher than those of other services, which harms consumers.
The CEO of PriceRunner, Mikael Lindahlpoints out that «Since the breach is still occurring, the amount of damages is increasing by the day, so we expect the final damage amount in the lawsuit to be significantly higher.» than what they have asked for in damages.
The director stresses that they ask for “compensation for the damage that Google has done to us for many years, but we also see this lawsuit as a fight for consumers who have suffered from Google’s violation of competition law for the last 14 years and that continues today breaching«.
Meanwhile, Google is still appealing the fine we mentioned it received from the EU in November. The first one has already lost it, but appealed again last month as it seems to them that there are “areas that require legal clarification by the European Court of Justice”.
