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Internet search giant Google is facing European antitrust scrutiny after three companies filed complaints about unfair competition.

A UK price-comparison site called Foundem, a French legal search engine called Ejustice.fr and a Microsoft  service called Ciao From Bing, have brought competition complaints to the European Commission, Google said today in a posting on its European policy blog.