Google requested a US federal choose on Friday to dismiss nearly all of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and different US states that accused the search big of abusing its dominance of the internet advertising market.
Google stated in its court docket submitting that the states failed to indicate that it illegally labored with Facebook, now Meta, to counter “header bidding,” a know-how that publishers developed to earn more money from promoting positioned on their web sites. Facebook isn’t a defendant within the lawsuit.
The states had additionally alleged that Google used a minimum of three packages to govern advert auctions to coerce advertisers and publishers into utilizing Google’s instruments.
Google responded that the states had a “collection of grievances” however no proof of wrongdoing. On some allegations, Google argued the states waited too lengthy to file its lawsuit.
“They criticize Google for not designing its products to better suit its rivals’ needs and for making improvements to those products that leave its competitors too far behind. They see the ‘solution’ to Google’s success as holding Google back,” the corporate stated in its submitting.
Google requested for 4 of the six counts to be dismissed with prejudice, which implies that it couldn’t be introduced again to the identical court docket.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stated they might press on with the struggle. “The firm whose motto was as soon as ‘Don’t Be Evil’ now asks the world to look at their egregious monopoly abuses and see no evil, hear no evil, and communicate no evil,” he stated in an announcement.
The Texas lawsuit had two different claims based mostly on state regulation and made in opposition to Google which have been stayed in September. The search big didn’t ask for them to be dismissed on Friday however could sooner or later.
The lawsuit is one a part of an extended listing of antitrust investigations and federal and state litigation in opposition to the Big Tech platforms.
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