Google was fined for the fourth time in Russia for prohibited sites in search

The World Court of Moscow found Google guilty of insufficient filtering of search results from content prohibited in Russia and fined 3 million rubles. This is Google's fourth fine in Russia for banned sites in the search, the previous three times the company paid about the same amount - 2.7 million rubles.

Google was first fined in November 2018 for 500,000 rubles for refusing to connect to the registry of sites banned in Russia to filter search results. a second fine The company was issued in July 2019, already for 700,000 rubles. Then Roskomnadzor reported that Google left about a third of the links from the register of prohibited information not deleted. In September, the company paid the third fine for banned sites in the search, for 1.5 million rubles.

According to Roskomnadzor, the Google search engine still does not remove up to 30% of "dangerous content" - extremist, pornographic resources, sites with suicidal content.

The law obliging search engines to connect to the federal state information system containing a list of prohibited sites came into force in September 2018. All except Google have complied with this requirement and do not provide links to prohibited resources in the search, Roskomnadzor noted.

In 2019, the revenue of the Russian "daughter" of Alphabet LLC "Google" increased by 25%, to 74.9 billion rubles. The new fine is about one thousandth of a percent of this amount.