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Yelp sues Google. Consumers review both platforms offering zero stars


Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in federal court, and consumers are reacting

“Consumers lose by getting stuck in Google’s walled garden of inferior quality, with multiple studies showing that people consistently prefer search results that incorporate third-party content.” Immediately, when Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman posted about the antitrust lawsuit, the reaction from the internet was priceless, highlighting this portion of the complaint: In 2009, Google began scraping reviews from Yelp and other local search services, and misrepresented that content as its own — only stopping after a 2011 FTC investigation condemned this conduct.”

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