During the summer of 2018, the European Commission fined Google $ 5 billion for forcing phone makers wishing to install Android on their devices to include Google’s search engine and browser on those devices. In other words, Google was telling these companies that if they wanted the Google version of Android (which is open source, after all), they would have to pre-install Google Search and the Chrome browser on these phones.
The European Commission has also underlined that
Google was paying manufacturers not to preinstall any search engine other than Google Search on their handsets, and would not allow the sale of phones with unapproved versions of Android. The EC believed that these restrictions were anti-competitive and hoped that the huge fine would help Google understand the seriousness of what it had done.
The term most used on the Bing app is Google
Before the huge fine was announced, the EU forced Google to send Android users on the mainland two notices that allow them to choose third-party search engines and browsers for their devices. According to Bloomberg, the search giant is seeking the $ 5 billion fine and removing the 2018 antitrust order from files. In doing so, he revealed interesting, if not extremely ironic, information.
Alfonso Lamadrid, a lawyer for Google, told the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Tuesday that “We have submitted evidence showing that by far the most common search query on Bing is Google”. Bing is Microsoft’s search engine and the lawyer was trying to make the case for how popular and more widely used Google search is than the competition.
Lamarid said so when he told the EU General Court that “people use Google because they want to, not because they have to. Google’s market share in general search is consistent with consumer surveys showing that 95% of users prefer Google to rival search engines. “
