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Google is suing, and it's not even the harmed party. Obligatory IANAL disclaimer applies, but surely a strong first-party case could be made for, at least, tort

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Google is suing, and it's not even the harmed party. Google is a harmed party; the false reporterts have engaged in the crime of theft (of services/labor) by false pretenses against Google. (Its true that that crime was merely instrumental to their goal of harming other businesses, but its a real crime and a real harm to Google.)
• blacksmith_tb 3y ago
  "A particularly damaging batch of fraudulent notices targeted more than 35,000 URLs operated by a Google customer that spends tens of millions of dollars per year on Google search ads. The effect was a significant drop in traffic during the holiday season, revenue losses for the customer and its sellers of $5 million, and a loss to Google of between $2 and $3 million." So you'd think the competitor firms could certainly sue also, if they were so inclined.