The European Commission (EC) has given Google’s competitors and other interested parties a month to respond to the company’s proposals in relation to online search and search advertising.
Earlier this month, Google revised concessions to resolve the two-year-long antitrust investigation into its alleged misuse of its dominant position in the online search market.
The commission said that it will take the feedback from other parties in its analysis of Google’s commitment proposals and if it concludes that they address its four competition concerns, it may decide to make them legally binding on Google.
As per the revised proposal, Google agrees to clearly label search results from its own services, such as Google Plus Local or Google News while search links in Google Shopper and Google Flight will remain as it is where competitors pay to be listed.
The search giant has also agreed give web sites the option to be excluded in its vertical search properties, while including them in general search results.
Google, which has been under investigation since 2010 in the EU, has a market share of more than 90% in the European Economic Area.
