Yelp, a local store recommendation serviceEarlier to GoogleInitiate a lawsuit, accusing it of abusing its market size advantage to affect competition in local store search services.
Earlier, Yelp had joined other Internet service providers in filing a lawsuit against Google, but without achieving any substantial results.
In this lawsuit against Google again, Yelp claims that Google has used its search engine market dominance to restrict the development of local information search service providers, including Yelp, thereby affecting consumers' rights to obtain information through multiple channels and restricting the development of small and medium-sized Internet service providers, including Yelp.
In the lawsuit, Yelp listed many facts about how Google and its service scale advantages affect competition, including giving priority to content linking to its own services in search results, or reducing the visibility of content from direct and potential competitors through algorithms, and even using its market scale advantages to require third-party websites and apps to use its service functions.
However, Google has not responded to this.
However, in terms of using its own market advantages to influence competition, Google is currently facing investigations by local governments in the United States, the European Union and other places to confirm whether Google is affecting market competition with its technological and scale advantages.
