Wednesday's verdict can be appealed and taken to the EU's highest court.
This is not the first time that the EU's General Court has ruled on an antirust case brought by the European Commission and directed at a tech giant.
"The General Court finds that, by favoring its own comparison shopping service on its general results pages through more favorable display and positioning, while relegating the results from competing comparison services in those pages by means of ranking algorithms, Google departed from competition on the merits," the court said in a press release Wednesday.
The chamber ruled in July 2020 that the commission had failed to prove that the Irish government had given a tax advantage to Apple — this was after the Brussels-based institution ordered the Republic of Ireland to recoup 13 billion euros from the iPhone maker in 2016.
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