Report: " Google " approaching a contract settlement with the European Union after the charges of monopoly

A report by news today that EU regulators are approaching contract settlement with the company "Google " , and after investigations it as long as three years on the practice of the last monopoly in the market for " search engines " via the search engine , and comes after the company offered concessions improved to calm fears competitors .

The contract means that settlement under the antitrust laws for the European Commission to " Google " will avoid a potential fine of up to U.S. $ 5 billion .

The news agency "Reuters" Wednesday , a senior official in the European Union , the company that owns the largest search engine in the world and the European Commission were close to a deal likely announced during the next few days, or within two weeks at the latest.

The IAEA has confirmed the occurrence of the settlement , citing a source familiar second , where the European official described that show " Google " the last , the third commissioner after he refused to compete with the " European Union " , " Joaquin Almunia ," offers a precedent , "the best ."

The presentation included new commitments from " Google " on how to deal with competitors in the future and how to use content from other suppliers , so that after the Commission said that " Google " is to provide preference and the products and services their own in the search results at the expense of competitors .

The company "Google " has pledged to view this that allow competitors to show their logos and web links within the Fund outstanding , to decide content providers choose none of them , and this will make it easier for advertisers to transfer their campaigns to the platforms of competition such as " Yahoo " and search engine "ping " of the Inc. " Microsoft " .

It should be noted that this monopoly accusations have been raised in 2010, and that of rival companies , most notably " Microsoft " , which claimed that " Google " exercised some of the methods when you show search results across Mahrkaha to highlight its services on the subject of search without the services of competitors .

It is noteworthy that the accusations of monopoly those that went to " Google " is not the first , where the company is currently facing in front of the European Commission , the executive arm of the European Union , has been accused of monopoly over the "Android " .

Faces " Google " accusations of a group of competitors such as " Nokia " and " Microsoft " and " Oracle " , it uses " Android" as a way of " misleading " to give preference to applications in about 70 % of the phones in the smartphone market .