Google has recently urged a California federal court to dismiss Yelp’s ongoing lawsuit, which accuses the tech giant of giving preferential treatment to its own local search services over competitors like Yelp. The legal dispute centers around allegations of Google’s “self-preferencing” practices in search results, a matter Yelp claims it has brought to antitrust agencies worldwide for more than ten years. The crux of Google’s argument is that these claims have been iteratively presented to various antitrust authorities without significant resolution.
For more in-depth coverage of the case details, you can read the article published by Law360 here.