Google has been discussing with the comparability websites, lodges, airways, eating places and retailers for greater than a 12 months now on learn how to adjust to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which prohibits it from favouring its services on its platform.
Last month, it introduced its newest proposal, which incorporates expanded and equally formatted items to permit customers to decide on between comparability websites and provider web sites.
It may additionally deliver again its outdated “ten blue hyperlinks” format from years in the past in its place if it will possibly’t agree with its rivals. This format is now being examined in Germany, Belgium and Estonia.
The value comparability web sites, which embrace Germany’s Idealo and billiger.de, France’s Le Guide, PriceRunner, Kelkoo and kieskeurig.nl and trovaprezzi.it, mentioned Google has not listened to their suggestions.
“Google has merely, repeatedly, ignored this suggestions, and as a substitute continued to iterate on the identical non-compliant resolution for months,” they mentioned in an open letter.
“If Google has not taken suggestions into consideration after greater than 100 occasions, it will possibly solely imply one factor: Google is wilfully not complying with the DMA.”
When requested for remark, Google referred to its November 26 weblog publish the place it pointed to the numerous adjustments it had revamped the previous 12 months to adjust to the DMA and discover a resolution.
The web sites referred to as on the European Commission to behave towards Google.
“The Commission has opened proceedings towards Google for non-compliance. It should proceed with such proceedings, subject preliminary findings, and impose fines on Google, together with periodic penalty funds, to drive Google to lastly pay attention and comply,” they mentioned.
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