Yelp sues Google for ’anti-competitive practices’; search giant hits back saying, ‘claims nothing new’

Yelp has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of engaging in anti-competitive practices that have negatively impacted the former’s business.

In a blog post, Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman claimed that Google has unlawfully leveraged its search engine monopoly to dominate both local search and local search advertising markets.

“… we aim to prevent Google from engaging in anticompetitive practices so that innovation may flourish,” Yelp’s Stoppelman wrote in a blog.