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Yelp sues Google over dominance in local search

Yelp has filed a lawsuit against Google over the company's dominance in local search results and stifling of competition.

Yelp has filed a lawsuit against Google over the company’s dominance in local search results, calling it the “largest information gatekeeper in existence.” With our action, we aim to safeguard competition, protect consumer choice, recover damages, and prevent Google from engaging in anticompetitive practices so that innovation may flourish. Yelp adds on a website dedicated to the lawsuit that Google’s “illegal self-preferencing in the local search market has significantly harmed consumers and stifled innovation.”

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