DuckDuckGo Urges EU to Bring Google Rivals to Android Talks (1)

DuckDuckGo and other smaller rivals to Google urged the European Union’s antitrust chief to bring them into EU talks with the U.S. tech giant aimed at injecting competition into the market for mobile search apps.

Regulators “may not be receiving complete or accurate information” over a pay-to-play auction that picks three alternatives to Google Search on new Android phones, according to an Oct. 27 letter to Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust chief. The letter, seen by Bloomberg, was also signed by Qwant, Seznam.cz AS, Ecosia GmbH and Lilo.

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