Google has asked the court to dismiss most of the lawsuit against Texas competition

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (NASDAQ 🙂 has asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss a majority of its lawsuit against Texas and other states accusing the search giant of abusing its dominance in the online advertising market.

Google said in its court case that the state did not show that it was working illegally with Facebook (NASDAQ :), now Meta, to deal with “header bidding”, a technology that publishers developed to make more money with an ad on their websites. Facebook is not being prosecuted.

States also complained that Google used at least three programs to manipulate ad auctions, forcing advertisers and publishers to use Google’s tools.

Google responded that the states had a “collection of complaints” but had no evidence of wrongdoing. Because of some allegations, Google argued that the states had waited too long to file a lawsuit.

“They criticize Google for not designing its products to better meet the needs of its rivals and for making improvements to those products that leave competitors too far behind. They see Google’s ‘solution’ to Google’s success,” the company said. his archive.

Google was asked to dismiss four of the six lawsuits with prejudice, which means it could not go back to the same court.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said they would continue the fight. “The company that once had the slogan‘ Don’t be evil ’is now urging the world to look into its horrific monopoly abuses and not see evil, hear evil and say no evil,” it said in a statement.

The Texas lawsuit had two other claims based on state law and were filed against Google, which were dropped in September. The huge search did not ask for a release on Friday, but it may be in the future.

This lawsuit is part of a long list of investigations and lawsuits against federal and state competition against Big Tech platforms.