Yelp Files Complaint Against Google Search in Europe

Mark Melin

Published onJuly 9, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Among its first moves after being required to delist certain “irrelevant” search results was to remove a posting critical of a large bank executive for his role in the 2008 mortgage derivatives crisis, as previously reported in ValueWalk.

Yelp charging Google for manipulating search results

Now a new line of attack is forming, as Google is being charged with manipulating search results to favor its in-house products or affiliated partnerships.

Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), a local services review site, has formally submitted a complaint against Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s search business to Brussels' competition officials. This comes at...

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

Yelp Files Complaint Against Google Search in Europe

Yelp charging Google for manipulating search results

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