CSS stands for Comparison Shopping Services and affects the main search on the Google homepage.

However, in order to use its own price comparison in an EU-compliant (i.e. competition-neutral) manner, Google retains around 20% of the maximum CPC bid as a margin. This will always reduce your bids by about 20% if you stay with your google Shopping campaigns on Google Shopping Europe. If you use a CSS partner like UnitedAds for your campaigns, the margin is completely eliminated.