Google fined $1 million for misleading French hotel rankings

Paris: Google has agreed to pay a fantastic of 1.1 million euros ($1.3 million; Dh4.7 million) after French authorities concluded the search engine displayed "deceptive'' rankings for French inns.

Beforehand, Google used the official supply Atout France in addition to enter from different hotel-industry web sites in its algorithm to rank inns from one to 5 stars.

After receiving complaints from hoteliers about Google's rankings, the French authorities's fraud and competitors company launched an investigation in 2019 and 2020. It stated it was to watch "the character and equity of the data supplied by the platform'' throughout 7,500 institutions.

Google stated that it has now made the "crucial modifications to solely replicate the official French star score for inns on Google Maps and Search.''