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Yelp sues Google, alleging a search engine monopoly that promotes its own reviews
Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, alleging Google used its monopoly to dominate local search and advertising markets.
“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 online blog post on Wednesday. Similar claims were thrown out years ago by the FTC(Federal Trade Commission), and recently by the judge in the DOJ’s (Department of Justice’s) case. Google has historically spent billions on exclusive contracts to become the world’s default search engine – allowing it to stomp on any sort of rival from Bing, DuckDuckGo, to even more specialized platforms like Yelp.
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