The European Commission is seeking fresh concessions from Google on how it displays search results on web pages.
According to BBC News, Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia revealed that he could also open a probe into Google’s mobile operating system Android. The dispute has been running since 2010, after rivals, including British price-comparison site Foundem, complained that the way Google displayed results was anti-competitive.
In Europe Google has a 90% share of the search market. In a deal hammered out in February, Google agreed to reserve space near the top of its European search pages for competitors, which would be open to rivals to bid for via an auction. However rivals said that this auction could generate an extra income of up more than 300 million euros for Google.