Google Fined â¬1.1 Million For Misleading Users With Hotel Ratings In France February 16, 2021 Google has agreed to pay a fine of 1.1 million euros (USD 1.3 million) imposed by the French authorities for displaying âmisleadingâ rankings for hotels and other tourist accommodations in France.                 In 2019, the DGCCRF (Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and the Repression of Fraud) launched an investigation following several complaints by hoteliers over Googleâs propriety rating system on its search engine and on Google Maps. The probe revealed that Google had replaced the official classification issued by the countryâs Tourist Development Agency, Atout France to determine the score for each hotel with its own proprietary algorithm system.