Google did not fully grant Google's motion to dismiss the claim. To Goldman's consternation, the judge presiding over Best Carpets Value v. "Google’s ads intruded on website owners’ limited space and created distractions that undermined every web page’s central purpose," the complaint alleges, claiming that Google earned "over $2 billion of non-consensual free advertising" in the two year period this Search App behavior existed. The Google footer, if subsequently clicked, would cover the website with an overlay occupying most of the screen real estate with banner ads from the firm's competitors. The company objected to the way Google's Search App on Android superimposed its own footer element onto the Best Carpets Value website, after the user had clicked on a search link to visit the site. Goldman pointed to a complaint filed by Best Carpets Value against Google in 2020. Law professor Eric Goldman, of Santa Clara University in the US, told The Register in a phone interview that the German court decision covers matters that were dealt decades ago by the American legal system when adware was being litigated.īut a recent complaint against Google shows that these issues don't necessarily stay settled.
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