EU to Ask More of Google

The European Union's competition watchdog is likely to ask Google to make further concessions to address the concerns of competitors who have complained about the way the Internet search giant displays results, EU Commissioner Joaquín Almunia said.

"This market test should have been concluded yesterday, but at the request of some participants we have decided to prolong [by] one month the market test, so at the end of June we will receive the answers," Almunia said in the European Parliament. "After we will analyze the responses…we will ask Google probably, I can't anticipate this formally but almost 100%, we will ask Google to improve the proposals." Almunia said he's looking into a separate complaint that Google uses its cellphone operating system Android to monopolize the mobile marketplace. "We have received a formal complaint regarding some aspects of the Android ecosystem," Almunia said at the hearing before the European Parliament. "We haven't decided if we will open or not a formal investigation."