Study full picture of Google’s search abuse in quantifying harm, Dutch court rules
By Lewis Crofts ( November 12, 2025, 16:52 GMT | Insight) -- A Dutch court said it needed to examine an online search market without two separate strands of distortive conduct by Google when deciding how much harm was suffered by price comparison sites. In a lawsuit over the harm to two Dutch shopping sites, judges said the right way to assess the harm was to strip out both Google’s preferencing of its own services and the demotion of others.A Dutch court said it needed to examine an online search market without two separate strands of distortive conduct by Google when deciding how much harm was suffered by price comparison sites....
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