Google Ordered to Pay $2 Billion For Anti-Competitive Practices By Swedish Court

Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg: The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kronor, or roughly $8.2 billion, in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown The Swedish price-comparison website argued that Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search engine by favoring its own comparison shopping service o...