A Swedish court began hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by Swedish price comparison site Pricerunner, owned by Klarna, against tech giant Google for over $8 billion for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results.

The Swedish tech startup filed its suit with the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm in 2022, following a European Union General Court ruling that Google "breached EU antitrust laws by manipulating search results in favour of their own comparison shopping services."

Originally, Pricerunner said it was suing Google for around $2 billion but said at the time it expected the "final damages amount of the lawsuit to be significantly higher", given that "the violation is still ongoing."

In a statement, Swedish fintech giant Klarna -- which acquired Pricerun

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