The European Union’s legal team hit back at Google’s fight to strike out a €2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) fine for unfairly favoring its own shopping services — telling judges at the bloc’s top court that the case largely boils down to whom they should trust more.
The Alphabet Inc. unit is appealing a 2021 ruling by the EU’s lower tribunal that backed the European Commission’s decision that the firm violated antitrust rules by favoring its own shopping service over those of its rivals. It was forced to change the way it displays shopping search results that might help rivals grab some of the valuable ad space on search pages.