Swedish price comparison company PriceRunner has filed a lawsuit against Google in the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm for a preliminary compensation of 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion), accusing Google of showing favoritism toward its own services.
In a Feb. 7 statement, PriceRunner cited the European General Court’s decision that Alphabet-owned Google had violated the EU’s antitrust laws by manipulating search results to benefit its comparison shopping solution. As such, Google took away from the revenue of comparison shopping services such as PriceRunner and harmed the interests of European customers who ended up overpaying while shopping online.
