London: In a move to curb the dominance of the search giant, the European Parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, the Financial Times reported.
In a vote expected Thursday, the European Parliament may endorse forcing Google to split its lucrative search engine into a separate company.
The move will increase political pressure on the European Commission, the European Union`s executive arm, to take a tough stance on Google, either through an anti-trust investigation or by introducing new laws to curb it.
The draft, backed by the European People`s Party and the Socialists - the two main political blocs in the EU, wants the "unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services," the report added.
Earlier this year, Google was forced to accept the European Court of Justice`s ruling on "the right to be forgotten" and was also asked to remove index links about certain people.
Google has been under scrutiny of European regulators since 2010.