A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay a whopping sum of 14.3 billion kronor, roughly $1.5 billion, to Klarna for seemingly prioritizing its own comparison shopping tool over PriceRunner.
If you don"t know what Klarna is, it"s basically a massive financial technology company that sort of pioneered the "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) industry. Klarna bought PriceRunner, the company at the center of the Google lawsuit, back in 2022 to expand its ecosystem, and subsequently integrated its price-comparison and product discovery features directly into the Klarna app.
According to the Klarna/PriceRunner lawsuit (which PriceRunner filed in February 2022), Google was favoring its own comparison shopping services in search results, which starved competitors of traffic and cost the Swedish company massive profits over 14 years.
The PriceRunner lawsuit went to trial in October last year, but by that time, the damages Klarna was requesting had ballooned up to 77 billion kronor, equivalent to about $8.3 billion, from the previous estimate of 22 billion kronor.
During the trial, which ran from October 20 to December 19, 2025, Klarna presented detailed economic analyses to show how Google"s search manipulation directly caused massive long-term traffic and revenue losses for PriceRunner across multiple European countries, including Sweden and Denmark. Google tried to defend its practices. It argued that it had fully resolved all anti-competitive search issues after adjusting its algorithms back in September 2017, but the Swedish court rejected that defense anyway.
The $1.5 billion judgment is currently the largest antitrust damage award in Swedish history, so one could see this as a partial success for Klarna, since the company did not get the original 77 billion kronor (~$8 billion) that it wanted. But Google is fighting back and has stated that it disagrees with the court"s decision. It is currently reviewing its legal options to appeal because it believes its 2017 shopping ad updates successfully resolved the problem.
Consequently, Klarna will likely have to wait a long time before collecting any actual cash, as the Swedish appeals process for a case this massive will probably drag on for years.