Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival’s landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.

When a federal judge declared Google an illegal monopoly in a landmark ruling this month, it was not immediately clear what consequences the world’s largest search engine provider would face.

But one result is coming into focus: Google’s antitrust defeat opened the door to more lawsuits.

On Wednesday, Yelp, the popular online service that lets people find and review local businesses, sued Google in federal court in San Francisco. Yelp claims that Google used its dominance as a general, or all-purpose, search engine to gain an unfair advantage in local search services. Yelp is seeking unspecified monetary damages and an order for Google to stop its anticompetitive practices in a jury trial.

A longtime critic of Google, Yelp has frequently complained about how the search giant treats

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