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Anna Desmarais

Google slapped with a €5.8 billion lawsuit in UK for 'overcharging' in search market

Google’s parent company Alphabet is facing a class action in the UK seeking £5 billion (€5.83 billion) in damages over claims British advertisers were hurt by the company’s anticompetitive behaviour. 

Or Brook, an associate professor in competition law at the University of Leeds, alleges in the suit that Google used its dominant position to "exclude actual and potential competitors from the general search and search advertising market". 

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