{"id":702,"date":"2023-09-18T16:56:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/2023\/09\/18\/european-antitrust-choice-screen-on-android-must-evolve-quickly\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:56:23","slug":"european-antitrust-choice-screen-on-android-must-evolve-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/en\/2023\/09\/18\/european-antitrust-choice-screen-on-android-must-evolve-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"European Antitrust: Choice Screen on Android must evolve quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"
Qwant continues its fight to allow Internet users to freely choose their search engine on their phone.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n For more than five years, Qwant has regularly informed the European Commission of the harmful effects of Google’s anti-competitive practices, which deprive consumers of normal access to a diversified offer of search engines. With the Open Internet Project (OIP) collective, we filed a complaint on March 6, 2017 against these practices, thus joining our voice to other European search engines such as the Czech Seznam or the Russian Yandex, also complainants. These complaints allowed the European Commission to find the abuse of dominant position and to condemn Google to<\/a> a fine of 4.34 billion euros in July 2018.<\/p>\n Two years later, Qwant welcomes what the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has also formally filed a complaint against Google<\/a> to put an end to abusive practices that harm all Internet users by preventing search engines from offering their services normally, and therefore from investing in their development. After a lengthy investigation, the DOJ, like the Commission before it, was able to verify that Google had indeed used the Android system as a key blocking any possibility for a search engine other than itself to be chosen by consumers.<\/p>\n We believe that these investigations and decisions must lead as soon as possible to finally putting a real end to abuses, by giving Internet users the opportunity to freely choose the search engine they want on their phone.<\/p>\n