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.
Google will face a scaled-down antitrust lawsuit over search after a judge ruled that state AGs didn't show that Google's search results harmed rivals like Yelp
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
Google will face a scaled-down antitrust lawsuit over search after a judge ruled that state AGs didn't show that Google's search results harmed rivals like Yelp
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his recusal, citing his work with Yelp and others
Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter's involvement had been paused and the Alphabet unit sought his recusal
Sources: DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter is barred from Google cases as the DOJ debates whether he must recuse himself after working with rivals like Yelp
The Justice Department's top antitrust official has been barred from working on monopoly investigations of Alphabet Inc.'s Google … Tweets: @revolvingdoordc , @sarahmillerdc , @matthewamiller , and @s...
Amazon tells staff it will pay up to $4K in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions, following Yelp and others
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters :
Google questions whether DOJ's new top antitrust official Jonathan Kanter can be impartial, citing his work with Yelp and the News Media Alliance
David McCabe / New York Times :
SCOTUS declines to hear case over whether Yelp is responsible for removing defamatory reviews from its site after CA Supreme Court ruled in Yelp's favor in 2018
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company
Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled.
Yelp writes letter to FTC alleging Google is breaking 2012 promise not to scrape content from sites that opt-out and says FTC should reopen investigation
ed up. Google scraping Yelp was the most obvious abuse of power I saw when I covered Goog. (I disagreed w/Yelp abt broader stuff.) http://twitter.com/...