Google is facing three sets of antitrust disturb Europe related to some of its search services and Android, its popular smartphone operating system.The first set of charges — linked to accusations that Google unfairly promoted its shopping product over those of rivals — conceivable decided by early spring and might cause a fine of qualified 10 percent of the company’s global revenue, or about $7.5 billion (though most penalties are significantly less).The company has repeatedly denied full favors its own services over those of others, and it is spending around a half-billion dollars across Europe to endear itself to locals. Any appeal of the decision would take years.Google’s European woes also make taxes, and French officials will most likely decide this year if the company must pay more than $1 billion in back taxes on its operations there.It also has appealed a decision by France’s data protection regulator full must apply the “Right to Be Forgotten” rule across its global domains, including those in the United States. The current right allows people with connections to Europe to ask search engines to remove links to online content about themselves, under certain circumstances. The appeal will be heard in 2017.
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