France fines Google 1.1 million euros over hotel rankings practices

Reuters

15 February 2021 at 4:48 am

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is seen at the Young Entrepreneurs fair in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) - Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a 1.1 million euros ($1.34 million) fine after a probe found that Google's hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers, France's finance ministry and fraud watchdog said on Monday.

The ministry and watchdog also said in a statement that Google has amended its hotel rankings practices since September 2019.

($1 = 0.8238 euros)

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Matthieu Protard; editing by Jason Neely)