Yelp, the San Francisco-based popular online service that lets people find and review local businesses, has complained several times against unfair means used by the search engine. But this is the first time the company has sued Google, despite years of opposition to regulators around the world.
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said, on Wednesday, that Google had abused its power over online search. This historic decision opened the door to legal action against Google and Yelp today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Justice department and states had sued Google, accusing it of illegally cementing its dominance by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to automatically steer users to Google’s search engine on their smartphones and web browsers. An allegation that seems obvious to Samsung and Apple mobile phone users. It is seen that Google apps are forced by Samsung in its handsets to its users.
In the filing, Yelp said that “Google took Yelp’s data, used it for its own competing property to siphon users away from Yelp and profited.”
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said, on Wednesday, that Google had abused its power over online search. This historic decision opened the door to legal action against Google and Yelp today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Justice department and states had sued Google, accusing it of illegally cementing its dominance by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to automatically steer users to Google’s search engine on their smartphones and web browsers. An allegation that seems obvious to Samsung and Apple mobile phone users. It is seen that Google apps are forced by Samsung in its handsets to its users.
In the filing, Yelp said that “Google took Yelp’s data, used it for its own competing property to siphon users away from Yelp and profited.”
