News Corp Files Formal Complaint to European Commission over Google
April 18 2016 - 07:00AM
Dow Jones News
BRUSSELS—News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has filed
a formal complaint with the European Commission over Alphabet
Inc.'s Google, accusing the U.S. tech giant of leveraging its
dominance in the search for news articles, a person familiar with
the matter said.
News Corp is concerned that Google reinforces its dominance in
general search by "scraping" or copying content from publishers to
display the results of news articles, according to the person. News
Corp alleges that if the publisher doesn't want the content to be
copied at all, Google then wouldn't show the articles in the
results at all, the person said.
Google wasn't immediately available for comment.
The European Commission is already investigating allegations
that Google copies or "scrapes" rival Web content, but so far
hasn't issued any formal charges in the area.
The European Union has issued formal charges against Google for
allegedly skewing search results to favor its own shopping service
and, according to people familiar with the matter, could also soon
file formal charges against the company over its conduct with its
Android mobile operating system.
News Corp filed a separate complaint regarding Google's
competition practices last April, but has declined to disclose
further details about that complaint.
Write to Natalia Drozdiak at natalia.drozdiak@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 18, 2016 06:45 ET (10:45 GMT)
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