EU: Google comments on antitrust charges: ‘We don’t always get it right’

Matt Brittin, Google’s president in Europe, has offered the company’s first public statement on the European Union antitrust charges leveled in April. And they’re contrite.

“We don’t always get it right,” Brittin told Politico in an interview published Thursday evening. “As far as Europe is concerned: we get it. We understand that people here are not the same in their attitudes to everything as people in America.”

Back in April, the EU filed two cases against Google for anticompetitive practices with its comparative shopping service and Android. Google is seven weeks into the 10 it was allotted for a formal response.

In the interview, Brittin stressed Google’s disagreement with the charges, repeating the claims from its internal response that, with the explosion of mobile devices, the search engine is not nearly as dominant as it once was or is portrayed to be. Politico reports, however, that he said Google is open to a settlement, something those that have gone through the European regulatory wringer recommend.

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