BRUSSELS: The EU's top anti-trust official sharply criticized the "irrational" response by European politicians to the Brussels investigation of search engine giant Google, a report said on Thursday.

"Google has provoked a lot of emotions and in some cases ... some kind of irrational emotions," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the Wall Street Journal.

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