Another antitrust lawsuit was filed today (Thursday) in the U.S. against Google, this time claiming that the company had designed its search engine operations to harm competitors.
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The lawsuit against the search giant was filed by attorneys general in 38 states, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weisser and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, a Republican. “Google tends to say that people use Google, but I claim that Google uses people,” Peterson said in a zoom conversation, “it benefits from their information by using it for advertising.”
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The lawsuit focuses on the way Google displays search results, amid complaints from its rivals like Yelp and Expedia, which Google claims prioritize its services in search results. This forced them and others to pay to appear high in the search results, or to give up their presence there. “The prosecutors’ bipartisan complaint is perhaps even more important than previous lawsuits in that it targets the core of Google’s dominance: its search results,” said Luther Lowe, vice president of public policy at Yelp, “provides to see that Google is finally called to give She is accountable. “
The current lawsuit, led by Colorado and Nebraska, comes after a lawsuit filed by ten Republican states led by Texas filed yesterday, accusing Google’s forceful search engine of creating monopoly In the online advertising market, due to its impact on every aspect of the market: buyers, sellers, and brokerage deals.
In October, the Justice Department and a dozen states sued Google’s parent company Alphabet, alleging monopolistic and anti-competitive actions, following its deal with Apple over search results, and its policy of including its apps by default in the Android operating system.