The European Union is going to file antitrust charges against Google in the next few weeks, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
The EU has been investigating Google for several years now, but now the region's top antitrust authority, the European Commission, has been asking companies who filed confidential complaints against Google for permission to publish those complaints.
The Commission could end up fining Google up to 10% of its annual revenues, which would be more than $6 billion based on last year's revenue.
Last November, the European parliament passed a non-binding resolution suggesting that Google should be forced to separate its search business from its other businesses. That resolution actually never mentioned Google by name, but it was clear that it was referencing the US search giant.
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