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Spotted: Links to competing shopping engines in UK Google Shopping results

The new look is in response to the European Commission's antritrust ruling against Google, but it may not satisfy rivals.

Ginny Marvin on February 13, 2018 at 10:12 am
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How’s that “inclusive” new look for Google Shopping results in the EU coming along? Kind of strangely, it seems.

Last summer, the European Commission fined Google nearly $3 billion for favoring its own shopping content in search results and hurting competition. The Commission ordered the company to deliver a solution that offers “equal treatment” to competing comparison shopping engines in its results.

The search giant has denied wrongdoing, but last fall, the company announced a response to the EC’s complaints, with Google Shopping operating as a distinct business and competing head-on with comparison shopping engines (CSEs) such as Shopzilla, Twenga and ShoppingFM in the Shopping auction.

The appearance of rival CSE ads in Google Shopping results, however, has been slow to come. But on Tuesday, a webmaster who goes by Gabs online tweeted a screen shot of a Shopping result shown in the UK in which the final ad slot provides links to view more listings from both Google and the CSE ShoppingFM, saying it’s the first example he’d seen of the new treatment:

first non google ad showing in google shopping cc @rustybrick #googleshopping #ppc #pla pic.twitter.com/yr9mDUQ2bo

— gabs (@gabs) February 13, 2018

The actual ads shown in the screen shot above are all “By Google,” as opposed to another CSE. Gabs added that he’s been able to replicate this type of result with several other queries.

When Google announced its new approach to Shopping results in the EU, it showed the example below of the envisioned new look, with ads from Google and competing CSEs intermingled in the results.
Google’s proposed vision has not materialized, say rival CSEs. Last month, the competing companies complained to the European Commission and are seeking additional concessions from Google. The company maintains it is meeting the requirements of the EC’s ruling.



About The Author

Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin is Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day to day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin writes about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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