Google's therefore likely to be happy about the fact that it's just had a fine overturned by a European court less because of the money and more because of the message. The Alphabet-owned tech giant has just won its appeal against a previous European Commission (EC) court ruling and had its €1.

Google’s appeal to the European Union’s General Court has resulted in a significant reduction of the penalties the company faces in Europe. In 2019, Google was hit with a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) fine from the European Commission over what was described as “abusive practices in online advertising.

European Union's General Court sided with Google in its appeal against a $1.7 billion EU antitrust fine over its ad practices.

The EU’s General Court has annulled a $1.7 billion fine against Google for anti-competitive advertising practices, according to Financial Times.

Google has avoided a European Union $1.7 billion antitrust penalty over its AdSense advertising platform thanks to a Wednesday ruling from the EU General Court. The court annulled the European Commission fine.

Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro ($1.66 billion) European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business.

The EU's General Court overturned a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) antitrust fine against Google, initially imposed in 2019. The European Commission accused Google of unfairly dominating the online ad market by preventing websites from using other ad brokers,

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior.