An overseas branch of Google News may be about to get its parent unit in a lot of trouble.

Italian antitrust regulators are investigating claims that newspapers were more or less forced to contribute to the site, and certain tactics and potential penalties suggest the situation is very serious.First, lets discuss the allegations. According to an article on the Wall Street Journals site, the Italian Federation of Newspaper and Periodical Publishers known also as FIEG due to translation issues claimed, News companies that refuse to share their news on Google News Italia are excluded from the search engine of U.S.