Learning platform Chegg files complaint against Google over AI

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - US-based online education firm Chegg filed a complaint against Google and Alphabet, its parent company, related to AI-based implementations, according to a press release.

"We are launching a strategic review process and filed a complaint against Google, which has unjustly retained traffic that has historically come to Chegg, impacting our acquisitions, revenue and employees,” said Nathan Schultz, Clegg’s CEO, on Monday.

He added: "We would not need to review strategic alternatives if Google hadn’t launched AI Overviews, or AIO, retaining traffic that historically had come to Chegg, materially impacting our acquisitions, revenue, and employees."

He claimed that traffic is being blocked from ever coming to Chegg because of Google’s AIO and their use of Chegg’s content to keep visitors on their own platform.

"We retained Goldman Sachs as the financial advisor in connection with our strategic review and Susman Godfrey with respect to our complaint against Google," he added.