Details Emerge of Potential Google Monitor in Europe

Wanted: A Google watchdog in Europe.

A 96-page description of the potential job emerged, giving a window into what Google faces if it signs the latest settlement offer from the European Commission and ends the long-running antitrust case against the company. Among the details of the job: The title is monitoring trustee. And although the salary remains unknown, the taker will be paid by Google. In addition, the chosen candidate cannot have any other links to Google during the five-year term or for three more years after the job comes to an end. Google could hold the person liable for disclosing confidential information. Among the many requirements Google faces under the agreement is giving three rival search services room on some web pages to encourage consumers to sometimes click on them instead of on Google’s own services for products like iPads, tickets for flights to Las Vegas, or hotel reservations in Glasgow. And the details will matter.