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A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone<\/em> parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters<\/em><\/a>. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google\u2019s side in a ruling on Wednesday<\/a>, writing that PMC and Chegg\u2019s claims don\u2019t stand up to antitrust law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg<\/a> and PMC accused Google<\/a> of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results. The publishers alleged Google\u2019s practices diverted traffic away from their sites, hurting their revenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Mehta, who made a landmark antitrust ruling<\/a> against Google in 2024, disagrees with Chegg and PMC\u2019s claims. \u201cPlaintiffs have pleaded only that they have an \u2018expectation\u2019 that Google will send them search \u200btraffic if they make their content available for free,\u201d Mehta writes. \u201cBut an expectation is not an agreement. It is simply how a general search engine works.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mehta adds that the court is not \u201cunsympathetic to the situation publishers now find themselves in,\u201d but writes that antitrust rules can\u2019t replace a legislative body\u2019s decision to address the economic impact of \u201cnew innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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