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Roughly a month after being hit with a pretty damning antitrust suit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google issued its response on Sunday via a public blog post tackling some of the more “misleading” allegations.
This is pretty out of character for Google, which has, until now, been pretty private with its response to any antitrust investigations both in communications with the press and with its own rank and file employees. Even the blog post itself is pretty myopic, narrowly focusing on a handful of charges from the Texas case without addressing any allegations from, say, the dozens of other states or the Department of Justice, among a few others.
Photo: Alastair Pike (Getty Images)
Roughly a month after being hit with a pretty damning antitrust suit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google issued its response on Sunday via a public blog post tackling some of the more “misleading” allegations.
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This is pretty out of character for Google, which has, until now, been pretty private with its response to any antitrust investigations both in communications with the press and with its own rank and file employees. Even the blog post itself is pretty myopic, narrowly focusing on a handful of charges from the Texas case without addressing any allegations from, say, the dozens of other states or the Department of Justice, among a few others.
Last week, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg tried and failed to overturn President-elect Joe Bidenâs victory over President Donald Trump by joining a lawsuit on behalf of the state.
Wednesday â and again on Thursday â Ravnsborg sued Google on behalf of the state of South Dakota. Google is the worldâs largest internet search engine whose parent company saw $46.2 billion worth of revenue from July 1 to Sept. 30 alone.
First Google SuitIn the first suit filed on behalf of the state of South Dakota, Ravnsborg alleges that Google engages in âanticompetitive conduct, exclusionary practices, and deceptive misrepresentations in connection with its role in the multibillion-dollar online display advertising industry.â
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