After Years Of Anti-Competitive Complaints Foundem Sues Google In UK Court

Bloomberg reports Google is yet again being sued, this time by UK’s shopping search engine, for alleged anti-competitive practices. This comes a week after the FTC ruled that there is not enough evidence to prove search bias by Google in their search results. Foundem is seeking damages for revenue lost as a result of Google’s […]

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FoundemBloomberg reports Google is yet again being sued, this time by UK’s shopping search engine, for alleged anti-competitive practices.

This comes a week after the FTC ruled that there is not enough evidence to prove search bias by Google in their search results.

Foundem is seeking damages for revenue lost as a result of Google’s “anti- competitive conduct,” lawyers for Foundem said. “Since a lack of original content is an inherent characteristic of all search services, including Google’s own, that reason cannot justify” Google’s actions, Foundem said in the U.K. lawsuit.

The case is Infederation v. Google, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, No. HC12A02489. The court documents were filed in October but only released this week.

Foundem has continually made legal efforts against Google. We’ve documented them in these stories:


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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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