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Booking.com's message to European regulators? Don't lump us in with Google when you go after Big Tech. It's so rare to see any public dustup between Google and Booking.com even though there have long been competitive tensions behind the scenes.
In a rare public display of tension, Booking.com and Google are at loggerheads over European Union plans to potentially break up Big Tech and "gatekeepers."
The Financial Times reported that Google had plans to recruit Booking.com and others in a major lobbying campaign to blunt stiff regulatory action in the form of a Europe-wide Digital Services Act, but Booking.com told the publication it would have no part of it.
“We have no intention of cooperating with Google on upcoming EU platform regulation," Booking.com told the Financial Times. "Our interests are diametrically opposed."
When asked to clarify whether Booking Holdings would be joining Google's campaign, Booking spokesperson Leslie Cafferty told Skift Thursday: "No. We are not involve
