EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results

Interesting that while the European Parliament is processing over 1000 proposed amendments to the DMA, the controversial issue of self-preferencing now seems to be a consumer protection issue and not just an antitrust one (via Reuters):

Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and hotels and explain how it ranks these or face possible sanctions, the European Commission and EU consumer authorities said on Monday.

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Kevin Coates, 'EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results' (21st Century Competition, 29 July 2021) <https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2021/07/eu-gives-google-2-months-to-improve-hotel-flight-search-results/> accessed 10 April 2026.

Chicago

Kevin Coates. "EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results." 21st Century Competition, 29 July 2021. https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2021/07/eu-gives-google-2-months-to-improve-hotel-flight-search-results/.

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@misc{kevin-coates2021, author = {Kevin Coates}, title = {{EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results}}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2021/07/eu-gives-google-2-months-to-improve-hotel-flight-search-results/}, note = {21st Century Competition} }
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