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Plaintiffs allege that Google has engaged in various harmful and anticompetitive behavior with respect to the online advertisement market, which makes Google approximately $260 billion per year in revenue. Specifically, they allege that Google began pursuing an unlawful strategy to monopolize the market for publisher ad servers and that since 2010, Google has deliberately restricted the ability of publishers using a non-Google ad server to trade through Google’s exchange, only allowing publishers that license Google’s ad server to receive live, competitive bids from its exchange. Plaintiffs allege that Google used its powerful position on every side of online display markets to unlawfully exclude competition and used its interlocking web of monopolies to perpetuate a series of mutually reinforcing anticompetitive acts in complementary markets, all with the goal of monopolization. Plaintiffs further allege that as a result of the monopoly created by Google, it has sought to unfairly dictate the rules by which display advertising is bought and sold, undermines customer choice, increases prices, harm innovation, and degrades the quality of ad intermediation. Plaintiffs seek injunctive and monetary relief as well as other forms of relief.
Two business "classes" are alleged to be affected by the Google monopoly- Advertisers and Publishers. Advertisers have been preliminarily defined and described as all persons that received revenue from Google for displaying advertisements using Google’s Ad Exchange services from four years prior to the date of this Complaint’s filing through the present. Publishers have been preliminarily defined and described as all persons that received revenue from Google for displaying advertisements using Google’s Ad Network services from four years prior to the date of this Complaint’s filing through the present.
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