{"id":2440,"date":"2024-08-29T00:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T00:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/yelp-sues-google-for-alleged-antitrust-violations-citing-previous-watershed-government-ruling\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T00:49:28","slug":"yelp-sues-google-for-alleged-antitrust-violations-citing-previous-watershed-government-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/yelp-sues-google-for-alleged-antitrust-violations-citing-previous-watershed-government-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp Sues Google for Alleged Antitrust Violations, Citing Previous &#8216;Watershed&#8217; Government Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Yelp sued Google on Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive practices and \u201cabusing\u201d its monopoly to \u201cdominate\u201d local search and advertising markets.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/trust.yelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Yelp-v.-Google-Complaint-August-28-2024.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complaint<\/a>, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Hausfeld attorneys Sathya Gosselin and Swathi Bojedla, accuses the Big Tech giant of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act and California\u2019s Unfair Competition Law by exploiting its position as \u201cthe largest information gatekeeper in existence\u201d to \u201csteer users to its own inferior content to pad its massive revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp sued Google on Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive practices and \u201cabusing\u201d its monopoly to \u201cdominate\u201d local search and advertising markets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[460,358,1208,585,958,3211,686,479,3163,3212,3210],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alleged","tag-antitrust","tag-citing","tag-google","tag-government","tag-previous","tag-ruling","tag-sues","tag-violations","tag-watershed","tag-yelp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}