Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks on his book "How Google Works" at Columbia University in New York, October 30, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton The European Union is planning its most aggressive move yet to curb Google's growing power.

According to the FT, the European parliament is considering a motion that would suggest Google unbundle its search engine from its other products.

Google executives are said to be "furious" about the proposal, which they only found out about a couple days ago.

The big concern is that nearly everybody uses Google for search — it's got well over 90% share in Europe. In 2011, some smaller specialized search companies complained that Google moved them down in search results so that users wouldn't easily be able to find them. Microsoft also complained that Google had done things like make it hard for Bing to search Google's YouTube, and blocked advertisers from accessing data. The EU has been investigating on and off ever since.

The parliament doesn't have the power to order Google to split up on its own, but could pressure antitrust regulators, who have been investigating Google for more than three years now. The concern is that Google uses its search dominance to squeeze out search results that would guide people to potential competitors.

Germany has been most aggressive toward Google, and its justice minister called on the company to publish exactly how it ranks search results. Today, a German member of the European parliament, Andreas Schwab, who is one of the backers of the motion, said that "unbundling cannot be excluded."

Google and the EU were said to be reaching a deal earlier this year, but Microsoft and some other competitors argued against it, and the EU reopened its investigation in September.

The European parliament will agree on final language for the proposal next week and is expected to vote on it next Thursday.

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