In anticipation of the decision of the judge on the remedies that will be placed in Google, to restore competition, Yelp filed a complaint against the company's Mountain View, having a monopoly on the market, the search is damaged, the customers, the competitors and advertisers. According to a spokesperson for Google, these are the allegations to be unfounded.
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Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-founder of Yelp, claiming that " Google has abused a monopoly of his own government, in the pursuit of the general for the dominate also, the local market, research, e.m.th the research is limited to certain sectors, which, in the case of Yelp, there are reviews, and reservations.
According to the CEO, and when a user conducts a search of the local, Google obtained the results of a twisted, as the company's Mountain View, has manipulated therefore, to show the services in the plan view. The links to the reviews and Yelp show up later on in the process. This leads to a decline in traffic and profits.
Yelp is brought to an end a partnership with Google in 2007. Two years later, Google tried to buy Yelp. The company's Mountain View then it started to had the reviews of Yelp without permission (skrapimi was completed in 2011 after an investigation was launched by the FTC).
The CEO believes that the conduct of Google, damaging the competitors, consumers, and advertisers. The company's San Francisco have suggested already that the only remedy for the effective, is to force Google to sell you services and to benefit from the advantages of a monopoly. In the appeal, he wants to prevent the practice of his antikonkurruese, and to become the sum.
A spokesman for Google, said that the charges on Yelp are unfounded. Among other things, they have already been rejected by the FTC over 10 years ago (PDF file), and finally, the judge Amit Mehta.
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