Antitrust complaints against Google

 

There have been 40 antitrust complaints against Google to the European Commission’s DG Competition since November 2009

30 of these complaints were filed by individual companies, and 10 by associations

35 complaints are on search, 5 on mobile

NB: This list as compiled by FairSearch is non-authoritative. See below for the official list of complainants from the European Commission

 

 

N˚ Complaint	Date	Complaint	Complainant	Comments
1	3 November 2009	Search	Foundem
2	February 2010	Search	Microsoft (Ciao Unit, sold in December 2011)	Ciao.de initially file its complaint to the German Bundeskartellamt, later transferred to the European Commission
3	February 2010	Search	1PlusV (Unit eJustice)
4	November 2010	Search	1PlusV
5	November 2010	Search	VfT (Association)
6	December 2010	Search	BDZV (Association)	BDZV initially filed its complaint to the German Bundeskartellamt, later transferred to the European Commission
7	December 2010	Search	VDZ (Association)	VDZ initially filed its complaint to the German Bundeskartellamt, later transferred to the European Commission
8	December 2010	Search	Euro Cities
9	24 January 2011	Search	Interactive Labs
10	30 March 2011	Search	Microsoft	Withdrawal announced 22 April 2016
11	31 March 2011	Search	Elfvoetbal.nl
12	31 March 2011	Search	Hotmap.com
13	31 March 2011	Search	NNTP.IT
14	31 July 2011	Search	Deal du Jour
15	December 2011	Search	AEDE (Association)
16	23 January 2012	Search	Twenga
17	March 2012	Search	Odigeo
18	March 2012	Search	Expedia
19	April 2012	Search	Trip Advisor
20	April 2012	Search	Streetmap
21	August 2012	Search	Nextag
22	30 January 2013	Search	ICOMP (Association)
23	26 February 2013	Search	Axel Springer (Visual Meta Unit)
24	25 March 2013	Mobile	FairSearch (Association)
25	June 2013	Mobile	Seznam
26	June 2013	Search	Contaxe
27	27 June 2013	Search	IMPALA (Association)
28	14 November 2013	Search	CEPIC (Association)
29	31 March 2014	Search	BEUC (Association)
30	4 April 2014	Search	News Corp
31	25 May2014	Search	Contaxe
32	May 2014	Search	Open Internet Project (Association)
33	May 2014	Search	Deutsche Telecom
34	30 May 2014	Search	Yelp
35	16 June 2014	Mobile	Aptoide
36	August 2014	Search	Holiday Check
37	1 June 2015	Mobile	Disconnect Inc
38	13 November 2015	Mobile	Yandex
39	18 April 2016	Search	News Corp files second complaint
40	27 April 2016	Search	Getty Images	Focus on scraping

 

 

 

The European Commission issued its definitive list of complainants in the search case on 28 June 2017, without further detail, as Footnote 11 to its “Call for Tenders”, a document soliciting bids for a trustee to administer the remedies. The order appears to be that in which the complaints were filed:

The following companies or associations filed complaints related to Case AT.39740 –  Google Search (Shopping):

1. Indefederation Ltd (‘Foundem’)
2. Ciao GmbH (‘Ciao’)
3. lPlusV
4. Verband freier Telefonbuch verleger (‘VfiT’)
5. Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger (‘BDZV’) and Verband Deutscher Zeitschriften verleger (‘VDZ’)
6. Euro-Cities AG (‘Euro-Cities’)
7. nntp.it
8. Microsoft Corporation (‘Microsoft’)
9. Streetmap EU Ltd (‘Streetmap’)
10. Expedia Inc. (‘Expedia’)
11. Odigeo Group (Odigeo’)
12. TripAdvisor Inc. (‘TripAdvisor’)
13. Hot Maps Medien GmbH (‘Hot Maps’)
14. Elf B.V. (‘Elf), Twenga SA (Twenga’)
15. Nextag Inc. (‘Nextag’) and Guenstiger.de GmbH (‘Guenstiger’)
16. Visual Meta GmbH (‘Visual Meta’)
17. The Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (TCOMP’)
18. AEDE
19. Bureau Europeen des Unions de Consommateurs AISBL (‘BEUC’)
20. Deutsche Telekom AG (‘Deutsche Telekom’)
21. Yelp Inc. (‘Yelp’)
22. HolidayCheck AG (‘HolidayCheck’)
23. Trivago GmbH (‘Trivago’)
24. Open Internet Project (ΌΙΡ),
25. News Corporation (‘News Corp’)
26. com Ltd and Tradecomet LLC (together, Tradecomeť)
27. VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheberund Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH (‘VG Media’)
28. Getty Images Inc. (‘Getty’)
29. Promt GmbH (‘Promt’)