Google Did Not 'Abuse' Dominance in Maps, U.K. Court Rules
- Streetmap sued Google for unfairly promoting its own service
- Case comes amid EU threats of antitrust fines for Google
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Google won a lawsuit against online mapping company Streetmap EU Ltd. after a London court found the Internet-search engine hadn’t abused its power to crush the tiny British rival.
Google’s introduction of an image displaying its own maps at the top of search results in 2007 was not "reasonably likely" to affect competition in the markets for online maps, judge Peter Roth said in a judgment published Friday. The change gave Google an unfair advantage over other mapping providers and resulted in a "dramatic loss of traffic," Streetmap said in court documents.