Google to pay $36 million after striking deals that shut out rival search engines in Australia

Google on Monday agreed to pay $50 million Australian or $35.8 milllion US to the country’s consumer watchdog. The search giant had to pay the fine after it was found that its deal with Australia’s two largest telecom opertaors to pre-install Google search application on Android phones and exclude rival search engines had hurt competition in the market. 

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stated that it has begun proceedings in Australian Federal Court on Monday against Google’s Asia Pacific division. The court will now decide…