Google Sued for Search Abuse

This is a U.K. news story, published by CNBC, that relates primarily to Google news.

U.K. news

For more U.K. news, you can click here:

more U.K. news

tech giants news

For more tech giants news, you can click here:

more tech giants news

CNBC news

For more news from CNBC, you can click here:

more news from CNBC

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best tech news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like tech giants news, you might also like this article about

antitrust lawsuit

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest search advertising market news, landmark competition law news, tech giants news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

class action lawsuit

CNBC

•

Technology

Google faces £5 billion lawsuit in the UK for abusing 'near-total dominance' in search

Summary

Nutrition label

73% Informative

A class action lawsuit filed in the U.K. claims Google abused its position to restrict competing search engines.

The suit is being brought on behalf of all U.S.-based organizations that used Google 's search advertising services from Jan. 1, 2011 , up until when the claim was filed.

A 2020 market study found that 90% of all revenue in the search advertising market was earned by Google .

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech