Google avoids fine with regulator deal

Google has agreed to make concessions on how it displays competitors’ links in a deal with the EU regulator that ended a three-year antitrust probe and avoided a fine.

It means the search engine has avoided a process that could have led to a $5bn (€3.7bn) fine, or 10% of its 2012 revenue.

It must stick to the deal for the next five years. However, it may still face a second EU probe, this time into its Android operating system for smartphones, with potentially bigger risks.