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Canada watchdog sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct


The suit is the latest regulatory headache for Google, which is facing similar action in the US.

In a statement Google said the complaint out of Canada "ignores the intense competition where ad buyers and sellers have plenty of choice and we look forward to making our case in court". “Through a series of calculated decisions, taken over the course of multiple years, Google has excluded competitors and entrenched itself at the center of online advertising,” the Competition Bureau said in its notice announcing the suit of Thursday. The case comes a week after the US justice department and a group of states demanded Google sells Chrome, the world's most popular web browser - just one of a series of remedies meant to stop the tech giant from maintaining its monopoly in online search.

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