Skift Take
Travel companies speaking out against the all-powerful Google walk a thin line because they are dependent on Google to widely varying degrees. They now have an apparent ally in the European Commission while the U.S. FTC opted out.
The European Union is filing antitrust charges against Google after a multi-year investigation and despite the fact that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reviewed much of the same allegations and, in a controversial move, took no action.
The travel industry's antitrust beef with Google is similar to those of other ecommerce sites such as Amazon.
The most significant complaint over the last few years from the likes of Exped
