Filed by a bipartisan group of 38 attorneys-general. December 18, 2020 -- 01:51 GMT (17:51 PST) | Topic: Legal Google has been sued again on antitrust allegations, this time by more than 30 US states, for abusing its market power to rearrange search results to squeeze out competition. According to the legal complaint [PDF], Google methodically buried competitor sites and services in its own search results -- despite these competitors paying Google for advertising services -- and, at the same time, prominently displayed its own competing reviews or services. This prevented companies from creating specialised services that could have challenged Google's search engine, the complaint said. "In this way, Google bars its own advertising customers from making their value known to consumers in a manner that would benefit competition, consumers, and advertisers. In so doing, Google degrades access provided to specialised services as compared to other services that do not pose a competitive threat," the complaint said.