EU: Vestager ‘I Have No Grudge Against Google’

EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has been attracting attention for a while now as she is the main person responsible for hitting Google with an antitrust lawsuit.

She claims that Google has been abusing its dominant power in Europe by manipulating search engine results. Google, on the other hand, has refuted such claims, stating that users who use the search engine select their links with their own discretion and Google is not in the habit of manipulating search results.

Ms. Vestager has been under scrutiny as analysts have labeled her as an enemy of Google. So much so that the AFP called her Google’s arch nemesis.

Yesterday, she spoke at the NYU School of Law and she cleared out the misconceptions of any grudges, by stating: “Most media would like a conflict, I have no grudge against Google. We have made a statement of objection lining out our preliminary view on a certain conduct.”

She elaborated by saying that the conduct she is referring to is the fact that Google is taking advantage of its dominant position in the search engine market.

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