Google requested a US federal decide 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 marketing market.
Google stated in its court docket submitting that the states failed to point out 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 not less than three applications to control 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 signifies 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 company whose motto was once ‘Don’t Be Evil’ now asks the world to examine their egregious monopoly abuses and see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil,” he said in a statement.
The Texas lawsuit had two other claims based on state law and made against Google which were stayed in September. The search giant did not ask for them to be dismissed on Friday but may in the future.
The lawsuit is one part of a long list of antitrust investigations and federal and state litigation against the Big Tech platforms.
© Thomson Reuters 2021
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