Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, February 10th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Google's rivals are accusing the search giant

of unfairly promoting its own services, this time when it comes to booking a vacation.

Talks on a $9 billion insurance takeover are in the works,

and Ireland's Nationalist Party demands a role in the country's new government after an election surge.

Plus, we'll look at how Airbnb is responding to a string of deadly shootings at rentals booked on its site.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Google has another antitrust case nipping at its heels.T. has seen an official complaint to the European Union Commission where 34 of Google's rivals say the company unfairly promoted its holiday or vacation rental, search engine over others. The complaint came from companies

including Home to Go, TripAdvisor, and Expedia. The website's claim Google gives its own

service a more favorable ranking and display.

They said it does it in such a way that gets more user attention and clicks than a competing

service would get, even if a competing service is more relevant to a user's search.

One company accuses Google of granting the use of its own service for free

and a space it charges other vacation search engines for.

A Google spokesperson said that the search engine is designed to give users the most relevant

information in searches. Google was already set to take action on another antitrust matter

this week. The search giant is appealing a 2.4 billion euro

fine before Europe's second highest court. And the EU has already fined Google a

total of 8.2 billion euros for illegally promoting its own business above others on the platform.

The company is also being investigated for how it collects data and whether its practices

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