European Commission Asks Companies to Go Public With Google Complaints

By MARK SCOTTAPRIL 2, 2015

LONDON — Europe’s five-year antitrust investigation against Google could soon be heating up again.

The European Commission has asked several companies that had filed complaints against the search giant to make their confidential submissions public, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The companies that have filed submissions with the commission include major American technology companies, like Yelp, as well as powerful German and French publishing groups that claim Google has too much control over how Europeans access information over the Internet. By asking several of these companies to make their submissions public, the European Commission can ask Google to respond to the companies’ claims and bring the case closer to resolution, according to several of the people.

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