Case Law Details
News Broadcasters & Digital Association Vs Alphabet Inc. (Competition Commission of India)
Informant has inter alia levelled the following allegations against Google:
1. Members of the Informant are forced to provide their news content to Google in order to prioritise their weblinks in the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) of Google. Thus, Google free rides on the content of the members of Informant without giving them adequate compensation.
2.. Google exploited the dependency of the members of the Informant on the search engine offered by Google for referral-traffic to build services such as Google News, Google Discover and Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), which utilize the value of content created by the members for its own economic benefit.
3. Google provides news content to the users (a) on Google Search, and (b) through its news aggregator vertical, i.e., Google News. In Google Search, users can either search directly for news through News Tab or receive news through result in SERPs. Google incorporated news content in its SERPs through featured snippets including “Top Stories” carousels. However, the revenue distributed by Google to news publishers doesn’t compensate for the real contribution made by the members of the Informant to these platforms.
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