Giant's problems on the Islands. A collective lawsuit against Google went to court

A collective lawsuit was filed with the British court against Google. Its authors demand the equivalent of $ 6.6 billion, including For using an almost exclusive position on the online search market to raise advertising prices.

The American concern was also accused of limiting the functioning of competitive search engines and thus acting for Monopolization of the advertising market in online search engines. The lawsuit was filed by Or Brook on behalf of – as CNBC said – hundreds of thousands of organizations based in Great Britain.

“Currently, British companies and organizations, regardless of their size, have almost no choice and are forced to use Google's services to advertise their products and services,” Brook said and emphasized that the company uses its dominance on the market to overstate prices to advertisers.

The authors of the claim filed on Tuesday also claim that Google has taken a number of actions to limit the competition in the field of search, including He concluded contracts with smartphone manufacturers to pre -installed Google Search and Chrome search engine on Android devices and paid Apple for guaranteeing Google to grant Google the status of the default search engine in the Safari browser.

CNBC emphasizes that he failed to get a comment from Google. The portal recalled the result of a study of the British Office for Competition and Markets from 2020, which showed that 90 percent All revenues on the advertising market in search engines went to Google. (PAP)

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