UK shopping comparison website, Foundem, has asked the EU to reject Google’s proposals to settle the antitrust investigation into its alleged misuse of its dominant position in the online search market.
Last month, Google submitted a package of concessions to the EU in a bid to to resolve the two-year-long antitrust investigation into its alleged misuse of its dominant position in the online search market.
The EU regulators had reportedly agreed to Google’s revised concessions and had given the company’s competitors and other interested parties a month to respond to its proposals in relation to online search and search advertising.
Foundem said Google’s proposals are ill directed as they do not address its anti-competitive abuse.
The company believes Google is keen to portray the commission’s acceptance of its proposals as a fait accompli.
"But, if the commission were to adopt anything like these proposals, it would kill any hope of re-establishing the level playing field on which competition, innovation, and consumer choice depends," Foundem added.
"Google’s proposals are so ill-suited to the problems at hand and so far removed from anything that could solve them that the Commission cannot knowingly accept them."
In 2012, Foundem sued Google for the search engine firm’s alleged anti-competitive conduct and is seeking damages for the revenue it lost.
