Google, the search engine company, is a racist, bully, oppressor, and dictator.
The parent company of the Daily Mail and Mail Online is
suing Google for alleged anti-competitive behavior by shaping search results
and ad auctions that harm online publishers.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in
Manhattan, claims that Google mounted a dominant position in the digital
advertising market and is using that market power to exclude competition.
It states that the technology behemoth now dominates the
tools used by publishers and advertisers to buy and sell online ad space.
“Google represents that its publisher ad server, as a tool
for publishers, maximizes the yield for publishers’ inventory. But Google
operates under a conflict of interest,” the lawsuit declares.
“With its control over publisher ad serving, Google controls
how publishers solicit and evaluate real-time bids for their inventory.
Meanwhile, by operating the dominant exchange and dominant buy-side software,
Google is the most powerful buyer of that inventory and ultimately reduces the
quality and quantity of online news,” the lawsuit insists.
Among the tactics Google uses is manipulating search
rankings to “punish” publishers that “do not submit to its practices,” the
lawsuit alleges.
A spokesperson for the Daily Mail told The Wall Street
Journal in a statement that the paper’s anxieties arise from its assessment that
coverage of the British royal family in 2021 had been downplayed in Google
Search results.
Google argues against the charges in the lawsuit, stating that the
Daily Mail’s allegations are “completely inaccurate.”
“The use of our ad tech tools has no bearing on how a
publisher’s website ranks in Google Search. More generally, we compete in a
crowded and competitive ad tech space where publishers have and exercise
multiple options.
The Daily Mail itself authorizes dozens of ad tech companies
to sell and manage their ad space, including Amazon, Verizon, and more.
We will defend ourselves against these meritless claims,”
Google announced in a statement. =
This is the latest in a series of suits filed against Google
that claim anti-competitive behavior. In January, a West Virginia media company
that runs various newspapers filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to
determine whether Google and Facebook had broken antitrust laws.
The lawsuit alleges Google has unlawfully applied monopoly
power in the digital advertising market, which has limited newspapers from
competing in the market and caused them to lose their primary source of revenue.
The Silicon Valley company is further facing multiple
antitrust lawsuits brought by the Justice Department and attorneys general in
several states.
Editorial
Google is a search engine company that controls the universe;
therefore, they feel like "God", if I should say. They set rules for the world
to follow, yet they break those rules themselves by committing serious crimes
with impunity.
The company doesn’t repent or change its bad habits and will
do everything, including a crime, for the sake of money. Sometimes, I strongly
believe they don’t have respect for even Black people because I have been
publishing every crime by Google on our blogs, yet they still do it.
I can’t express in words the injustices Google has done to
me and our blogs, just to suppress information. There is no way I wouldn’t be incarcerated
if I had to commit the same crimes against the search engine company or anyone.
The search engine company will continue to oppress the helpless, but there are big companies that have the power to face them. This is what we are
seeing now, and this lawsuit won’t be the last because Google is an oppressor
and dictator.
