By Foo Yun Chee

BRUSSELS (Reuters). BRUSSELS (Reuters). On Thursday, DuckDuckGo (and three other search engine competitions to Google) urged EU lawmakers in Brussels to adopt new tech rules against Alphabet (NASDAQ 🙂 and take legal action against it. The EU lawmakers stated that they still have not seen positive outcomes from an antitrust decision against Google.

In 2018, the European Commission assessed a record amount of 4.24 billion euros ($5 billion) against Google. It found that it had unfairly used Android to consolidate its dominance in search engines.

Google made subsequent changes, and announced four months earlier that it would allow rival search engines to compete free of charge for Android device users in Europe.

U.S. search engine DuckDuckGo and Ecosia in Germany, as well as Qwant and Lilo from France, suggested that lawmakers use the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a set of tech rules created by Margrethe Vestager, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to protect competition.

In a letter sent to European Parliament legislators, they stated that “despite recent changes we don’t believe it will move the market share significantly because of its persistent limitations.”

The preference menu, which allows users to choose the default search engine when setting up Android devices on Chrome desktop and other operating systems isn’t available. It is also not shown on Chrome desktop.

They stated that the DMA should require a preference menu for search engines. This would prohibit Google from accessing default search access points in operating systems or browsers used by gatekeepers.

Once it is approved by the EU legislators and EU member countries, the DMA could be in force by 2023.

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