The filing aims to avert more EU antitrust penalties, adding to the company's existing €9.5 billion ($11.2 billion) total in European competition fines.
People familiar with the matter said regulators were concerned Google may have demoted publishers' websites when those pages carried adverts from some commercial partners.
The proposal targets how news links are displayed across Google's search engine and reflects continuing European scrutiny of the US tech group's treatment of publishers.
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