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Report: Google might be facing antitrust violations in India
July 17, 2025
Reutersreported today that India’s antitrust watchdog is investigatingGoogleover alleged antitrust violations. The issue is whether or not Google is usingAndroid’stop position in the market to stymie the competition.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) started looking into the mattersometime last year. The CCI then reportedly decided in April that there was enough evidence against Google to launch a full probe.
Details on the alleged investigation are still slim since the CCI’s order hasn’t yet been made public.
The CCI’s alleged investigation is very similar to one that the European Unionconducted last yearwhich resulted in a fine of 4.34 billion euros (~$5 billion) for Google. According to the EU, Google forced OEMs that used the Google Play Store also to include Google products like Search and Chrome by default.
Google plans to appeal the fine, though the company in April announced how it would ask European Android users to choose adefault search engine and browser.
The EU also fined Google 1.49 billion euros (~$1.67 billion) in March over“abusive” online advertising practicesand 2.42 billion euros (~$2.7 billion) overmanipulating shopping search resultsas it relates to Google Shopping.
There’s even some precedent in India — the CCI fined Google1.36 billion rupees(~$19.46 million) last year over “search bias.” Google appealed the decision, saying that it could cause the company “irreparable” harm.
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