Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, alleging Google used its monopoly to dominate local search and advertising markets.
New York — A federal judge’s ruling that Google violated US antitrust law with its search business earlier in August paved the way for the lawsuit by Yelp , another major tech company that allows users to write reviews of local businesses. Yelp has long raised grievances with Google ’s search dominance, saying in the complaint Google had stymied Yelp ’s reach since rejecting the tech giant’s offer to buy the platform.
”“In other words, Google abuses its monopoly power in general search to keep users within Google’s owned ecosystem and prevents them from going to rival sites,” the statement said.Yelp claims Google does this because the quality of reviews on Yelp and other services is better. Yelp cited an FTC report that said 32% of reviews on Google have no text, while review text is always required on its own platform.
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