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<h1 class="title-news"> EU Commission's Google Investigation Won't
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<p>(Reuters) - A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into
whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches
will not affect the European Union's examination of the company.</p>
<p>"We have taken note of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
decision, but we don't see that it has any direct implications for
our investigation, for our discussions with Google, which are
ongoing," said Michael Jennings, a spokesman for the European
Commission, the EU executive.</p>
<p>U.S. regulators on Thursday ended their investigation into the
giant internet company, which runs the world's most popular search
engine.</p>
<p>Other internet companies, such as Microsoft Corp, had complained
about Google tweaking its search results to give prominence to its
own products. But the FTC said there was not enough evidence to
pursue a big search-bias case.</p>
<p>The European Commission has for the past two years been
investigating complaints against Google, including claims that it
unfairly favored its own services in its search results.</p>
<p>Google presented informal settlement proposals to the Commission
in July. On December 18 the Commission gave the company a month to
come up with detailed proposals to resolve the investigation.</p>
<p>If it fails to address the complaints and is found guilty, Google
could eventually be fined up to 10 percent of its revenue - a fine
of up to $4 billion.</p>
<p>(Reporting By Ethan Bilby; Editing by Sebastian Moffett and David
Goodman)</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013/01/04 05:12 PM, michael
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