{"id":956029,"date":"2025-08-19T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956029"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:29:05","slug":"google-to-pay-36-million-after-striking-deals-that-shut-out-rival-search-engines-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/google-to-pay-36-million-after-striking-deals-that-shut-out-rival-search-engines-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to pay $36 million after striking deals that shut out rival search engines in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Monday agreed to pay AUD 50 million (USD 35.8 million) to the country\u2019s consumer watchdog after it was found that its deal with Australia\u2019s two largest telecom operators to pre-install Google Search on Android phones \u2014 while excluding rival search engines \u2014 had hurt competition in the market.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) stated that it has begun proceedings in the Federal Court against Google\u2019s Asia-Pacific division. The court will now decide whether the AUD 50 million penalty is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Monday agreed to pay AUD 50 million (USD 35.8 million) to the country\u2019s consumer watchdog after it was found that its deal with Australia\u2019s two largest telecom operators to pre-install Google Search on Android phones \u2014 while excluding rival search engines \u2014 had hurt competition in the market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) stated that it has begun proceedings in the Federal Court against Google\u2019s Asia-Pacific division. The court will now decide whether the AUD 50 million penalty is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956029","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}