Google Made New Offer to Settle Antitrust Probe, EU Says

Google gave European Union regulators a new proposal to settle an almost three-year-old EU antitrust probe into the way it operates its search services.

“We received new proposals from Google in the previous week,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. “If we are satisfied with the new proposals, we can advance toward an agreed solution in the coming months.” “Our proposal to the European Commission addresses their four areas of concern,” Al Verney, a Brussels-based spokesman for Google, said. “We continue to work with the commission to settle this case.” “Once we have completed our analysis, once we will check that these new proposals are able to eliminate our concerns, we will tell Google what to do,” Almunia said.