Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets

Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.

New York Times 2024-08-29 Nico Grant

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@rstephens Robert Stephens on threads
I rate this lawsuit only ⭐️⭐️- ½ stars — RE: https://www.threads.net/...
@yelp @yelp on x
For 20 years, Yelp has focused on our mission to connect consumers with great local businesses. Today, we filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google to address their anticompetitive behavior and protect consumer choice. Learn more: https://s.yelp.com/.... [image]
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
Yelp's GC tells @nicoagrant that there will more copycat lawsuits like this ⬇️ I'm quite sure that Judge Mehta has no intention for his ruling about G's default contracts to lead a legal tribunal for any sites who don't like their G search rankings https://www.nytimes.com/... [im…
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
The arguments Yelp makes today against “self preferencing” were in the Colorado AG's own case against Google ⤵️ https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... [image]
@kristileilani Kristi Hines on x
Yelp has sued Google in an effort to ensure a better search experience for local consumers. “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 [i…
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
What was the anti-competitive behavior? Tweaking its algorithm in a way that hurt yelp. But Google's goal isn't to deliver traffic to websites; it's to give users answers. That may hurt Yelp...but that's not an antitrust problem. [image]
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Oh hey this came up in my latest newsletter https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ... [image]
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
Wow. Complaint comes out and says “Yelp is highly dependent on Google for traffic” and “Google's self-preferencing harms Yelp.” This is Yelp's problem - the law doesn't protect it from competition from Google. [image]
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
Yelp is fundamentally upset that Google decided to compete against Yelp in local search. They argue that was anti-competitive. It was pro-competitive - b/c it created more competition in local search. [image]
@nicoagrant Nico Grant on x
New: For more than a decade, Yelp complained that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After Google's landmark antitrust loss, it finally decided to sue. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@lutherlowe Luther Lowe on x
Good for Yelp. It's hard to imagine a more appropriate & morally righteous plaintiff in head-to-head litigation against Google. @JeremyS has been a tip of the spear in the antimonopoly movement. Godspeed. 🫡 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rakeshsfnyc Rakesh Agrawal on x
Every once in a while, Yelp should talk about why it's product is good and people should use it. Instead of all its comms being around how Google f*cked it.
@ddayen David Dayen on x
This was put to the side in the Google search case, so Yelp will pursue the local search case on its own. The culmination of a decade of work.
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
On the one hand, I appreciate that Yelp finally just filed its own antitrust lawsuit against Google, after spending a dozen years trying unsuccessfully to get the US govt to carry its water. OTOH, its arguments have already been rejected by federal courts and the FTC.
@jeremys Jeremy Stoppelman on x
Today, Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. For years, Google illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. 1/2
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