BiasHigh
Google Fined for Changing Shopping Algorithms in EU to Favor Own Service
- Occurred
- Sep 27, 2017
- Published
- Nov 10, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google was fined by EU Commission for changing its shopping algorithms in Europe to favor its own comparison service over competitors, resulting in anti-competitive effects.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Google's competitor shopping services
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: EU fine for anti-competitive algorithmic bias favoring own services over competitors.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8