Google's therefore likely to be happy about the fact that it's just had a fine overturned by a European court less because of the money and more because of the message. The Alphabet-owned tech giant has just won its appeal against a previous European Commission (EC) court ruling and had its €1.

Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine imposed five years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising.