Augmentation: Yelp Sues Google For SERP Features – Justified?

Augmentation: Yelp Sues Google For SERP Features – Justified?

Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for stifling competition and keeping searchers in its walled garden. Almost a month after Google was declared to be a monopoly, Yelp brings forward legal complaints for using SERP features to keep traffic on its site and illegally scraping and using Yelp’s content. In a CEO statement, Yelp … Read more

Video: Google August Core Update Data, SEO, Google Ads Features, Yelp Sues Google & More

Video: Google August Core Update Data, SEO, Google Ads Features, Yelp Sues Google & More

We have been tracking the Google core update and seeing more surges and changes with those hit by the September helpful content update. I ran a survey asking how SEOs were impacted so far by the August 2024 core update, and I shared these results this morning. Google may now use your OG title for … Read more

Yelp sues Google, alleging ******* dominance of local search

Yelp sues Google, alleging ******* dominance of local search

A new chapter in Google’s antitrust troubles opened yesterday with Yelp filing a lawsuit alleging that Google’s monopoly in search has allowed it to illegally dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. Yelp will argue that Google harms consumers by promoting its own inferior local search product over other local search providers, stifling … Read more

Yelp Sues Google For Allegedly Using Monopoly To Gain Unfair Advantage In Local Search

Yelp Sues Google For Allegedly Using Monopoly To Gain Unfair Advantage In Local Search

Yelp has officially filed a lawsuit against Google for allegedly using its monopolistic powers to give Google an unfair advantage in local search and local search ads. “For years, Google has leveraged its monopoly in general search to pad its own bottom line at the expense of what’s best for consumers, innovation, and fair competition,” … Read more

Yelp Sues Google Over Local Search Dominance

Yelp Sues Google Over Local Search Dominance

Yelp has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in federal court in San Francisco. The suit alleges that Google has illegally leveraged its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets, harming competition and consumer choice. Key Allegations Yelp’s complaint accuses Google of engaging in anticompetitive conduct, including: Self-preferencing … Read more

Google Sues Over Fraudulent & Weaponized DMCA Takedown Requests

Google Sues Over Fraudulent & Weaponized DMCA Takedown Requests

Google has filed a lawsuit against two men who allegedly used Google’s DMCA process “aimed at removing hundreds of thousands of their competitors’ website URLs from Google Search results,” the lawsuit writes (PDF here). The lawsuit says the “Defendants have weaponized copyright law’s notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously … Read more

Google Sues Rank And Rent Marketer

Google Sues Rank And Rent Marketer

Google is suing an online marketer for violating it’s terms of service and to prevent the defendant from causing additional harm to Google as well as to business owners and consumers. The person being sued was a member of a public Facebook group called, Rank and Rent – GMB Strategy & Domination. The lawsuit claims … Read more

Google Sues Business Over Alleged Fake Business Profiles & Reviews

Google Sues Business Over Alleged Fake Business Profiles & Reviews

Google had filed a lawsuit against a company that allegedly created fake Google Business Profiles and tons of fake reviews. Google said it filed the suit “to help put an end to these types of malicious schemes.” This company allegedly created 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and over 14,000 fake reviews to try to manipulate the … Read more

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