Saturday, August 13, 2011

Adsense | French Online Deal Firm Wants Probe Into EU Google

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French company deals online daily Deal of the Day HAS complained about Google 's business practices to EU Antitrust Regulators, the latest company to take icts Grievances about the web search giant to the European Commission.

In a Complaint filed with the European Commission on Sunday Seen by Reuters Deal of the Day Claimed Google Illegally removed from STIs STI web site index Without Any justification.

Google Said It aussi blocked it from using ITS Adsense advertising service, Saying the world No. 1 Internet search engine 's actions Were "clearly anticompetitive. "

Google Moved Into the Sector deals daily on Monday When It Dealmap Which Acquired The aggregates offers from lots of daily deal websites. The IS-profit Sector Dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial.

Complaint by The Deal of the Day underscores the Difficulties Facing Currently Google, the subject of nine Antitrust Complaints filed with the Commission and the target of a aussi United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation.

"We ask the competition regulator to Investigate Google as a matter of Urgency Because our small company IS Being Destroyed by Google, " Said Deal of the Day in the complaint.

The company aussi icts Complaint filed with the FTC and the French competition regulator.

The Commission Said It Does not how it HAS Complaints and That Ongoing Investigation Into Google year.

"We haven 't Seen a new Complaint, order our AdWords program HAS clear guidelines. We thesis work to Ensure Policies are easy to continue to Understand and Improve our customer service for Advertisers, " Google Spokesman Al Verney said.

If the EU accepts watchdog Deal of the Day 's arguments, Would it make it the Tenth official complain, putting it in a group That includes Microsoft.

Francotel, an affiliate of Deal of the Day, complained to the Commission last year blocked Google icts That 'Yellow Pages ' icts trademark in Adwords advertising service. It Is not one of the nine official complaints.

(Editing by David Cowell)

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