Following an investigation, the European Commission said in June 2017 that the search giant had shown results from its in-house comparison shopping feature “in a more eye-catching manner” than those of third-party services, which its algorithm downplayed on the page. The EU’s General Court largely upheld its findings, as well as the fine. (The Logic)

Talking point: Google has one further round of appeals available, to the European Court of Justice. The firm said it’s changed its shopping features in response to the original judgment. But the court ruling gives EU regulators momentum as they pursue or defend several other antitrust cases against Google, as well as “self-preferencing” investigations of other tech giants . In June, the commission announced a probe into the company’s ad-tech practices. The firm is appealing another huge fine of €4.3 billion in a case about its Android operating system.