Australia’s competition watchdog is requesting powers to develop and implement a cyber system that will require internet users be given a choice on what search engine to choose. It comes after warnings that Google’s “harmful” market dominance was severely stifling competition.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Competition (ACCC) said in its third interim report for an inquiry into digital platform services that Google had leveraged its wealth to entrench itself as Australia’s universal search engine, with its current market share sitting at 94 percent.
