Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed two antitrust lawsuits against Google on Wednesday, ruling that claims brought by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation do not stand up to antitrust law. The decision was reported earlier by Reuters.
Chegg and PMC, the parent company of Rolling Stone, filed the lawsuits last year. They accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or else risk disappearing from search results. The publishers also alleged that Google's practices diverted web traffic away from their sites.
Mehta sided with Google in the ruling. The lawsuits had accused the company of driving away web traffic through its AI-powered search features.
No further details on the ruling's reasoning were available. Google has not commented on the decision.
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A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC […]