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Yelp sues Google for anti-competitive practices: All the details

Yelp said Google has illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. Yelp said that when a consumer conducts a Google search with local intent, Google manipulates its results to promote its local search offerings above those of its rivals, regardless of the comparatively poorer quality of its properties, exempting itself from the qualitative ranking system it uses for other sites.