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Google faces new GBP5 billion UK antitrust class action over search advertising

( April 16, 2025, 09:38 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google faces an antitrust class action in the UK seeking around 5 billion pounds on behalf of thousands of UK-based businesses that have used the US tech giant's search advertising services. Competition-law academic Or Brook, heading the prospective collective claim, said today that it had been filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal. It accuses Google of abusing its "near-total dominance in the general search market to drive up prices." Google is already faced with defending a separate 7 billion-pound UK class action seeking damages over alleged anticompetitive behavior in the mobile search market, brought on behalf of UK consumers.Statement follows....

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