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Google said it will change its Search services in the EU in an effort to sidestep some of the €890 million (~$1 billion) in fines levied by the European Commission earlier this summer. The EU charged a fine of €460 million (~$534 million) on claims that Google had abused its dominance in search to prioritize…

The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust lawsuits: one filed in 2020 focused on Google’s dominance in search, and a second filed in 2023 that specifically targeted Google’s ad-technology business. Both cases argued that the search giant’s grip on the digital ad economy represents…