August 28  SEONews

Yelp accuses Google of antitrust in search results – Courthouse News Service

(CN) — Yelp, the website that allows users to rate and review local businesses, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google Wednesday, accusing the search giant of “abandoning its stated mission to deliver the best information available to its consumers and instead forcing its own low-quality local search content on them.”

According to Yelp, Google has used its vast dominance — it is responsible for more than 91% of all internet searches — to squeeze out local search platforms like Yelp by directing users to its own local search results, which Yelp says are vastly inferior.

Google, Yelp states in its 66-page complaint, “has never been able to develop a high-quality local search service to rival that of Yelp and other local search platforms. Unwilling to invest or innovate to attract users in a competitive environment, Google has instead relied on a simple but effective strategy — it uses its monopoly power in general search to make sure that users never get to local search…

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