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A comment on Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google. Parent comment

Re:Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google by ma2rten on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:02PM (#14699549)
It can be illegal to use your market dominance in one area (search) to reinforce or create market dominance in other areas.

As far as I know it's only illegal when there is harm to consumers. Antitrust laws are meant to protect consumers, not competitors.

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Re:Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google by WillPostForFood on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:21PM (#14699601)
Consumers and competitor benefit are effectively intertwined. Consumers need healthy competitors to avoid being subject to monopolies, so antitrust laws protect competitors to benefit consumers.
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