Google faces criticism in Europe

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Three European Internet companies have complained to the EU’s competition regulator that Google is choking competition by unfairly promoting its own products above theirs in their search engines. Can Google fairly advertise other companies that its in competition with? BBC business correspondent, Russell Padmore, explains.

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