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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016 file photo, Amal Clooney, left, and George Clooney arrive at the world premiere of "Hail, Caesar!" in Los Angeles. Clooney’s foundation is planning to open seven public schools for Syrian refugee children. The Clooney Foundation for Justice announced a new partnership Monday, July 31, 2017, with Google, HP and UNICEF to provide education for more than 3,000 refugee children in Lebanon. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

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This Tuesday, July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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FILE - In this May 13, 2015 file photo, Google's self-driving Lexus car drives along street during a demonstration at Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. A House panel on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, backed legislation designed to allow automakers to increase the testing of self-driving cars on U.S. roads. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

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European Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Google "denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. Most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation." (Associated Press)

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In this Tuesday, March 23, 2010 file photo, the Google logo displayed at the Google headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

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In this Tuesday, March 23, 2010, file photo, the Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels. The European Union's competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

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This March 23, 2010, file photo shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

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FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google is intensifying its campaign to fight online extremism, saying it will put more resources toward identifying and removing videos related to terrorism and hate groups. In a blog post Sunday, June 18, 2017, Google said that it will train more workers, called “content classifiers,” to identify and remove extremist and terrorism-related content faster. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google is intensifying its campaign to fight online extremism, saying it will put more resources toward identifying and removing videos related to terrorism and hate groups. In a blog post Sunday, June 18, 2017, Google said that it will train more workers, called “content classifiers,” to identify and remove extremist and terrorism-related content faster. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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This June 16, 2017, photo shows social media app icons on a smartphone held by an Associated Press reporter in San Francisco. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Google has been working in concert with Ford, GM and Tesla on driverless cars for years, and some jurisdictions already allow the test models to be driven on their roads. Some observers expect driverless cars in full use within the next five years, despite that some of the models have gotten into accidents. (Associated Press)

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FILE - This Monday, July 25, 2016, file photo shows Yahoo and Verizon Wireless logos on a laptop, in North Andover, Mass. Verizon is buying Yahoo in hopes of challenging Google and Facebook in the digital advertising market by combining ad technologies and user profiles from Yahoo and the AOL business it already owns. But Google and Facebook are so much better at this that it’ll be tough for Verizon to do more than tread water. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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This Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, shows the Chrome logo displayed at a Google event, in New York. Google says its Chrome browser will block ads on websites it deems too annoying for web users starting in 2018. The digital-ad giant’s announcement comes as hundreds of millions of internet users fed up with ads that track them and make browsing sites difficult have already installed ad blockers on their desktop computers and phones. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows Google's web address, in Philadelphia. Google is keeping an eye on what you’re buying offline in addition to monitoring your online shopping in its latest attempt to sell more digital advertising. The offline tracking of most credit and debit card transactions will help Google to automatically inform merchants when digital ads appearing on its vast marketing network translate into sales at a brick-and-mortar store. Google plans to unveil the store-sales measurement tool Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in San Francisco at an annual conference it hosts for its advertisers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Anil Sabharwal talks about updates to Google Photos during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the end of his keynote address of the Google I/O conference Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson talks about Google Play Protect during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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People listen to Google CEO Sundar Pichai deliver the keynote address of the Google I/O conference Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about TensorFlow at the end of his keynote address of the Google I/O conference Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Google provided the latest peek at the digital services and gadgets that it has assembled in the high-tech tussle to become an even more influential force in people's lives.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows a Google icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. Google is about to provide the latest peek at its digital services and gadgets as it seeks to become an even more influential force in people’s lives. The overview will come Wednesday, May 17, 2017, during Google’s annual conference for thousands of computer programmers. Updates to the next version of Google’s Android software for mobile devices and its voice-controlled digital assistant are among the items expected to be on the agenda. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)