{"id":1031859,"date":"2026-08-29T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031859"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:55:05","slug":"google-changes-spam-policy-in-eu-to-avert-antitrust-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/29\/google-changes-spam-policy-in-eu-to-avert-antitrust-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google changes spam policy in EU to avert antitrust fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s \u200bGoogle on Friday said it \u200bhad changed its spam policy in Europe \u200bto address EU concerns that could have resulted in an antitrust fine. <\/p>\n<p>The US tech giant found itself in EU regulators&#8217; crosshairs after publishers complained \u200cabout its \u2060site reputation abuse \u2060policy. <\/p>\n<p>It targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by taking advantage of the host site&#8217;s ranking signals, commonly referred to as parasite SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s \u200bGoogle on Friday said it \u200bhad changed its spam policy in Europe \u200bto address EU concerns that could have resulted in an antitrust fine. The US tech giant found itself in EU regulators&#8217; crosshairs after publishers complained \u200cabout its \u2060site reputation abuse \u2060policy. It targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by taking advantage of the host site&#8217;s ranking signals, commonly referred to as parasite SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031872,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031859\/revisions\/1031872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}