In the past, Yelp had already pointed out Googles illegal search results.
Yelp, thus is one of the complainants which encouraged theEuropean Commissions antitrust investigationinto Googles search practices.
Further, the data analysts from Yelp helped the researchers with the appropriate data required for the study.
Researchers Wu and Luca added: Such conduct therefore cannot be described as pro-competitive.
This presentation further had two versions of the search result for local business searches.
The study also indicated that Google favoring its own services is not that bad.
On the other hand, when requested for a comment, Google did not respond.
However, it has been observed that Google always denies that it violates the European antitrust rules.
Google has yet to respond to the Commissions charges.
It seems Google could be fined up to 10 percent of its annual revenue.
source: www.techworm.net
