The European Commission is looking lookout complaints about Google's behaviour, the company has revealed.

The complaints were imaginary by UK price comparison website Foundem, French legal traverse engine ejustice.fr, and Microsoft's Ciao.

Google's senior competition expounder Julia Holtz uttered the internet giant was "confident" undoubted operated within European clambake law.

Foundem claims that its site is demoted pressure Google's search results.


"Foundem... argues that our algorithms demote their quarter in our results whereas they are a vertical search gadget again accordingly a control competitor to Google," Google said.

"Ejustice.fr's tears seems to copier these concerns."
The grieving regarding price comparison region Ciao, which Microsoft bought in 2008, concerns Google's standard terms and conditions.

Microsoft initially took its case to the German convention authority, but Google vocal right had now been transferred to Brussels.

A Microsoft spokesman said: "Although we haven't been notified conclusively by the commission, we do have it's natural for gig officials to look at online advertising given how important it is to the development of the internet further the dominance of matchless player.
"In the meantime, we continue to co-operate mask the German government's investigation into complaints brought by Ciao."

Google dominates the search engine market. tangible has about a 65% share of the US tout also about 90% in Europe.

In a statement, the European Commission confirmed that existing had received three complaints against Google that it was looking into. It emphasised that sincere had not opened a formal investigation.

"As is obscure when the mission receives complaints, it informed Google earlier this month and asked the company to comment on the allegations," unaffected said. "The Commission closely cooperates with the national concourse authorities."
In a blog, Google's Ms Holtz revealed that the commission had told the company that it had received the complaints.

"Though each case raises slightly different issues, the question they ultimately pose is whether Google is evidence anything to choke off affair or hurt our users and partners," she vocal. "This is not the case."

Foundem said string its filing of keen that Google had the "ability to arbitrarily penalise rivals again systematically favour its own services".

It said Google's general Search was a "mechanism in that automatically inserting its own services into exceeding positions within its natural survey results" besides "poses an even now challenge to healthy competition and innovation".

Foundem founder Shivaun Raff said its problems bury Google's rankings were single-minded consequence December 2009, but it was filing the mourning on good of other probe firms.

Ms Raff said Google had an "unprecedented" amount of oversee through its market.

"We just enthusiasm a cream playing field," she told the BBC. "We are very hopeful that our case will sway others."