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Yelp Are suing Google for anti-trust / creating a monopoly
Hot off the heals of the DOJ success, Yelp have filed.
from Yelp's site:
Today, Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in federal court in San Francisco. Our case is about Google, the largest information gatekeeper in existence, putting its heavy thumb on the scale to stifle competition and keep consumers within its own walled garden. Abandoning its stated mission to deliver the best information to users, Google has illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets—engaging in anticompetitive conduct that has degraded the quality of search results and demoted rivals to grow its market power.
Yelp has long fought to make Google’s local search experience more helpful for consumers and create a level playing field for competing vertical search services. With our action, we aim to safeguard competition, protect consumer choice, recover damages, and prevent Google from engaging in anticompetitive practices so that innovation may flourish.
Source: X, CNN, Read about it on SEJ, Yelp's site, Google News
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1 Reply
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Yelp cold calls my business every other month. Just shut down if they don’t want to make any groundbreaking marketing
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f yelp though
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Isn’t Yelp trying for the monopoly themselves? At least Google doesn’t oppress or coerce small business owners for money. If Yelp comes on top, they will literally do just that. Running a small business is hard enough, then you got to deal with vultures from Yelp. Talking about double whammy.
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Fuck Yelp lol. This is rich coming from them. Still, Google may be in trouble in coming years.
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Precedent has been set with that ruling that they are a monopoly. Expect more of this.
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Yelp is a scam. Don’t use their app. Avoid it like the plague.
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I hope Yelp goes down
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Yelp is too expensive
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I can understand Google is holding up a lot of businesses growth to itself with offering almost everything on search pages itself. But Yelp here first of all don’t follow any good business practices. Second it is asking like it deserve a free spot on Google pages. If at all ruling should be like Google needs to stop moving towards all products and services offering business in the world. 😅😂
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Fuck Yelp. I hope they lose this one and Google destroys them.
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Ahah Yelp would not exist without Google. Yet they get off charging their clients for paid ad services that won’t outperform Google ads. Unreal.
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It’s basically an aspiring monopoly trying to sue another monopoly
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Good. Google is way too corrupt.
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Yelp is an absolute joke. Dont even know who you’d be rooting for here. Yelp = arsehul vs Google = giant arsehul
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I don’t even know what Yelp is. But they are absolutely right. Google does the same thing with reddit, the partnership between google and reddit is to keep users behind the google wall.
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