Tech companies urge EU Commissioner to force Google to compete fairly 

Representatives from Skyscanner.ie, Jobs.ie and Yelp.ie are among the signatories of open letter calling upon the EU Commission to enforce its 2017 abuse of dominance decision

Margrethe Vestager is being urged to enforce Google’s compliance with the Google Search (Shopping) decision and to take all necessary measures to stop the favouring and provision of other Google services within its general search results pages.

Irish website Jobs.ie is one of the signatories of an open letter from 130 tech companies and 28 industry associations calling on the EU Commission to enforce its 2017 abuse of dominance decision by putting an end to Google’s continuing practice of favouring its own specialised search services within general search results pages.

The tech companies, which also include representatives from Tripadvisor.com, Booking.com, Trivago.com and Hotels.com, write that Google has not achieved its dominant position “by competing on the merits.”