Google Sued by Rival Whose Maps Got Lost on the Internet
- Streetmap sues Google for unfairly promoting its own service
- Case comes amid EU threats of antitrust fines for Google
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Google, which is already battling European Union antitrust regulators, was accused in a London court of abusing its Internet-search power to crush a tiny British rival seeking to carve out a niche in the online mapping market.
The world’s biggest search engine company "used its dominant position in online search to give itself favorable treatment over everyone else," Mark Hoskins, a lawyer for Streetmap EU Ltd., said Wednesday. "We say that’s not normal competition because normal competition would be for Google to compete on the quality of the maps."