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Japan's waste and acquisition watchdog gave Google nan opportunity to voluntarily change practices it said group unfair restrictions connected competitors. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
April 22 (UPI) -- The Japan Fair Trade Commission gave Google a chance to voluntarily alteration its hunt practices aft determining it had placed what it called unfair restrictions connected competitors.
The committee said Google's restrictions connected Yahoo compromised nan integer advertizing marketplace successful Japan. Google and Yahoo Japan signed an statement successful 2010 that allowed Yahoo to usage Google's hunt motor advertizing exertion that linked ads to hunt keywords.
The Japanese watchdog agency said Google later altered nan woody to restrict immoderate of nan advertizing and that continued for 7 years.
The committee has called Google's plan submitted this period to resoluteness its issues pinch Yahoo Japan arsenic "workable" based connected nan country's Anti-Monopoly Law. Yahoo, which saw Google commencement to change its statement successful 2014, merged pinch Line Corp. successful 2023 to go LY Corp.
Last October, nan Free Trade Commission launched an antitrust investigation into Google for pushing nan manufacturers of Android devices to prioritize its hunt engines, its Google Chrome browser and Google Play app shop successful contracts. The committee said Google's heavy-handed strategies were meant to usage its marketplace position to illegally compression retired third-party competitors.
The committee said Google already owns astir a 90% stock of nan hunt market, making their demands astir intolerable for Android manufacturers to discuss aliases person a prime to prioritize different tech companies.
