The case has been before the CCI for over a couple of years. The CCI is probing a group of claims of misuse of market dominance against Google that contains cases filed by Consim Info, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) and Albion InfoTel.
The claim against Google is that the business has been abusing its dominant position by practices like creation of entry barriers for competing search engines, search exploitation, denial of access and search prejudice.
It’s also alleged that Google to be able to market its vertical search services and supplies several vertical search services like YouTube, Google News, Google Maps etc, it combines organic search results and many of perpendicular results. The result of such exploitation of results was that Google’s vertical search associates will appear mostly when an Internet user searches for some advice, irrespective of whether the search results are important or popular.
Under rivalry regulations, an entity discovered breaking the conventions may be smacked with punishment of up to 10 percent of its own three-year annual average dollar volume.
Google on its part has maintained the firm has expanded “complete cooperation to the Competition Commission of India in their investigation” and the business is assured that they “comply completely with India’s competition laws.”