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Stockholm's Patent and Market Court ordered Google to pay Klarna's PriceRunner unit roughly $1.97 billion for years of favoring its own shopping search results over independent rivals, cutting PriceRunner's original $8.2 billion claim but confirming the underlying abuse. Google is expected to appeal, while the ruling adds fresh precedent risk on top of the EU's 2017 case just as Google expands AI-driven shopping features.