The EU launches an investigation into Google's search function, Google: without any basis.

The European Commission announced on November 13th that it has formally initiated proceedings to assess whether Google follows fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory principles when providing access conditions to publisher websites in Google Search. The European Commission stated that Google, based on its "site reputation abuse policy," lowers the rankings of news media and other publisher websites in search results, especially when these websites contain content from commercial partners. Google responded by saying that the EU's investigation is wrong, could harm millions of European users, and is "baseless." Google's policy is crucial for combating deceptive paid promotion tactics and aims to display trustworthy results.