Yelp sues Google in wake of antitrust ruling on monopolising search

Online review site Yelp Inc. filed a lawsuit alleging that Google has illegal monopoly power in local search, in a sign of the legal headaches that may await the search giant following the US government’s landmark antitrust victory against the company.

Yelp claims the Alphabet Inc. unit has an unfair edge in the market for local search and associated advertising, both spaces in which the San Francisco-based company has strived to compete with its detailed reviews of restaurants, beauty parlours and other establishments. Yelp has spoken out about what it considers to be Google’s anticompetitive conduct for well over a decade.