EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings
The Commission said on Thursday that it had identified that Google is using its spam policy to push news media and other publishers' websites and content lower in search rankings when they include content from third parties.
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The Commission has identified Google's spam policy as a tactic to lower the search rankings of news media and other publishers' sites that include content from third parties. The tech giant has allegedly used this policy to push these sites further down in its search results.