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Yelp sued Google on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive practices in local search and advertising markets. The complaint, filed by Hausfeld attorneys Sathya Gosselin and Swathi Bojedla, accuses the Big Tech giant of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law by exploiting its position as ‘the largest information gatekeeper in existence’ to ‘steer users to its own inferior content to pad its massive revenues.’ Yelp, founded in 2004 and based in San Francisco, has praised a landmark ruling in 'United States v. Google' for opening the doors to filing its own complaint. Yelp has participated in several government antitrust probes of the Big Tech giant since 2011, when Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman testified to the U.S. Senate on the dominant search engine’s alleged anticompetitive conduct.

August 28, 2024, 8:25 PM