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A judge ruled earlier this month that Google is a “monopolist” and violated antitrust law, opening the door to more lawsuits, including Yelp’s.
“Our case is about Google, the largest information gatekeeper in existence, putting its heavy thumb on the scale to stifle competition and keep consumers within its own walled garden,” Yelp said in an “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, an internet search review company, is a competitor of Google, which also provides user reviews on its platform. Yelp filed its lawsuit in San Francisco court, alleging that Google manipulates results to promote its own offerings when a customer searches for such results on Google. That allows Google to unfairly outperform its rivals, the company said.in the DOJ’s case. On the other aspects of the decision to which Yelp refers, we are appealing.
As for the landmark antitrust decision in August, Google plans to appeal the verdict. The White House celebrated the decision at the time, saying it was “a victory for the American people.”Sarah Palin given new trial in defamation lawsuit against New York Times
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