Three companies have complained to Google before the European Commission for alleged practices against free competition.

The formal complaint was lodged by the British firm Foundem dedicated to price comparison; Ejustice.fr, France, specializing in judicial and Ciao! Microsoft subsidiary dedicated to shopping.

Arguing unfair competition Foundem ensures that Google’s search algorithms are programmed to remove relevant to your site in search results on Google. This is due to the Foundem own vertical search engine competes directly with Foundem. A similar argument has been presented by ejustice.fr.

Google, meanwhile, admits that the results can not be perfect, but adds that the classification of results is an ongoing challenge. The whole point of the algorithm in question is present to users the most relevant to them, according to Google.

The search giant claims to have nothing against vertical search, and that the allegedly poor results obtained in place Foundem only occur because this is not your site optimized for search engines. Google supports his views by quoting a invorme of Company Econsultancy, Indicating that other vertical search engines have much greater success.

Regarding Ciao, Google says it has had an excellent cooperation with the firm until it was bought by Microsoft. Since the purchase, Amazon has been sending a series of complaints about the business practices of Google, first to the German Bundeskartellamt entity and then to Brussels.

The EU investigation is at an early stage and it is doubtful that result in concrete action against Google.