US antitrust enforcers examining Google's conduct in shopping comparison

Google's practice of elevating its own services raises prices for consumers

US antitrust enforcers are examining Google’s conduct in the online shopping comparison market as they continue their probe of the search giant.

Richard Stables, chief executive officer of the shopping comparison site Kelkoo Group, said he spent more than an hour with Justice Department officials on Thursday to discuss how Alphabet allegedly hurt his European-based business.

The meetings show that the Justice Department, which opened its investigation of Google with a document seeking a wide swathe of information on the company, has an interest in at least one of three landmark European antitrust cases.

A Justice Department spokesman said the department has had