{"id":923218,"date":"2025-04-17T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923218"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:01:23","slug":"google-faces-6-6-billion-lawsuit-for-abusing-near-total-dominance-in-search-company-says-its-yet-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/17\/google-faces-6-6-billion-lawsuit-for-abusing-near-total-dominance-in-search-company-says-its-yet-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces $6.6 billion lawsuit for abusing \u2018near-total dominance\u2019 in Search, company says it\u2019s \u2018yet another\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is facing a substantial 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) class action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its \u201cnear-total dominance\u201d in the online search market to inflate advertising prices. A lawsuit has been filed with the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, accusing Google of leveraging its powerful position to unfairly restrict competing search engines.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by CNBC, this alleged anti-competitive behaviour allowed Google to solidify its dominance in the search market and establish itself as the indispensable platform for online search advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is facing a substantial 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) class action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its \u201cnear-total dominance\u201d in the online search market to inflate advertising prices. A lawsuit has been filed with the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, accusing Google of leveraging its powerful position to unfairly restrict competing search engines. According to a report by CNBC, this alleged anti-competitive behaviour allowed Google to solidify its dominance in the search market and establish itself as the indispensable platform for online search advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}