San Francisco — Google executives will wake up on Tuesday to the largest antitrust fine in European history. Even a whopping financial penalty would do little to phase a company whose parent has more than $90 billion in cash, though. Of graver concern is the prospect that regulators will force Google to change the way it handles online shopping searches, one of its biggest sources of sales growth and strongest weapons against rivals Facebook and Amazon.com. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager may require Google to feature listings and prices from competitors more prominently in shopping search results. That could dent a business that’s grown quickly since 2009 to account for as much as a fifth of the highly profitable ad revenue Google generates. European Union authorities have spent years building their case against Google, arguing the company favours its own shopping search results over those of other price-comparison websites. Google has denied wrongdoing. The al...
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