A Swedish court orders Alphabet’s Google to pay damages to Klarna’s Pricerunner unit after finding Google unlawfully favored its own price-comparison service in search results. Multiple outlets report that the ruling concerns Google’s conduct in the market for comparison shopping services, where the court concluded that Google gave preferential treatment to its own tool over Pricerunner.
The damages figure reported varies by outlet and currency conversion, with Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal citing an amount close to $2 billion, while the Financial Times reports about $1.5 billion. Euronews reports the court set the award at roughly 14.3 billion Swedish kronor, equivalent to about €1.3 billion.
All accounts describe the same core finding: the court determines that Google abused market power by steering users toward its own shopping comparison product for years rather than competing on equal terms. The reported decision covers antitrust damages owed to Klarna’s price-comparison business, Pricerunner.
