Google Again Sued For Alleged Monopoly Of Search Engine By Yelp
JAKARTA - Yelp founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that the company had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google's search giant in federal court in San Francisco.
In its lawsuit, the American company that focuses on being the main source of reviews and ratings made by users for the business claims Google has carried out the monopoly of the search industry illegally.
Today, Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. For years, Google illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. 1/2
— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) August 28, 2024
Today, Yelp files an antitrust lawsuit against Google. For years, Google illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. 1/2
Thus, he added, this anti-competitive behavior by Google finally garnered traffic and advertising income from vertical search services, such as Yelp.
Google has illegally abused monopolies in public searches to dominate local search markets and local search ads engaged in anti-competitive behavior that has lowered the quality of search results and lowered competing ratings to increase its market power, Stoppelman wrote on Yelp's official blog.
Furthermore, Stoppelman also revealed that another illegal action by Google in dominating the search market is through a multibillion-dollar exclusive agreement with browser makers, device manufacturers, and mobile operators, to become a default search engine on their phones and web browsers.
This lawsuit was made after the Justice Department sentenced Google for monopolizing the search. However, the August ruling did not impose any sanctions on Google.
A Google spokesperson commented that what Yelp accused was nothing new. Because, the allegations are exactly the same as what the US Department of Justice has accused of.
Yept's claim is nothing new. Similar claims were rejected a few years ago by the FTC, and recently by the judge in the DOJ case. Regarding another aspect of Yelp's decision, we filed an appeal. Google will firmly defend itself against Yelp's baseless claims, "a spokesperson told Engadget.