The European Parliament members have voted that the Google should be broken up, as it favours its own services in search results, BBC reported.
US trade bodies and politicians have expressed their objection and disagreement at the vote.
Google has almost covered 90% of the market share for search in Europe and its rivals have asked Margarethe Vestager, the European Union commissioner who will take the final decision, to investigate the following four areas:
- The manner in which Google displays its own vertical search services compared with other, competing products
- How Google copies content from other websites – such as restaurant reviews – to include within its own services
- The exclusivity Google has to sell advertising around the search terms people use
- Restrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search engines
Many believes that the Commission may not order for the company break-up, as there has never been such an order before.
This comes as Google’s rivals had lodged an anti-competitive case in 2010.
