Alphabet’s Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a U.S. educational technology company said in a lawsuit filed on Monday.
Chegg, an online education company that offers textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., that Google is co-opting publishers’ content to keep users on its own site, erasing financial incentives to publish.
This will eventually lead to a “hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust,” the company said.
The Santa Clara,