The Board Decision concerning the Investigation about the economic entity consisted of Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti., Google International LLC, Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited ve Alphabet Inc. (Google) (1.11.2021)

As a result of the discussion of the contents of the file on 12.11.2020, the Competition Board decided that Google violated articles 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by means of the positioning text ads at the top of general search results at high densities and in a way that their advertisement nature is unclear and thus complicating the activities of organic results, which does not generate income, in content services market; thus the said undertaking shall be imposed administrative fines.

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