In Australia, Google agrees to pay a large fine due to anti -competition deals

Google agreed today, Monday, to pay a fine of $ 55 million Australian (35.8 million dollars) in Australia, after the Consumer Protection Authority found that it had harmed the competition by paying it to the largest contacts in the country to install its search application in advance on Android phones, while excluding the competing search engines.

The fine extends a difficult period facing the giant internet company owned by Alphabet in Australia, where a court last week issued a ruling against it in a lawsuit filed by the company “APIC GMAS”, the manufacturer of the game “Fortnite”, accusing “Google” and Apple of preventing the application stores competing for their operating systems. YouTube also added the “YouTube” website of the company “Google” last month to an Australian ban on social media platforms that allow users under the age of 16, canceling a previous decision to exempt the video sharing site.