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Today is Thursday, August 29th, and this is your final news rundown of the week.

Let's get right into today's stories,

starting with a lawsuit filed by Yelp against Google.

So the reviews company, Yelp, has jumped into the litigation ring

and filed a lawsuit against Google over its search engine.

As you may know because I did cover this a few weeks ago, a judge just ruled against Google in a similar

antitrust lawsuit brought by the government.

In that case, the judge ruled that Google had actually violated antitrust law

by entering into these distribution contracts with browser developers

cell phone manufacturers and cell phone carriers as a way to ensure that

Google is the default search engine for the users of these goods and services.

And if you do want to hear more about that lawsuit, you can check out my August 6th episode.

But in the wake of that ruling, Yelp went ahead and filed its own lawsuit. So,

Yelp's lawsuit is based on the same premise that Google has illegally preserved

its monopoly by way of its search engines. However, Yelp's lawsuit is a bit different

in that it claims that the way Google has allegedly

designed its search results page is what's illegal,

meaning that the way Google lowers the visibility of specialized search

engines like Yelp and Tripadvisor is illegal.

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