Google coughs up $100 million to settle a 14-year class action suit in the US

Google’s got its hands full on the legal front these days. On one side, it’s battling a major federal antitrust case over its dominance in digital ads and search—something Judge Amit Mehta weighed in on back in August 2024. On the other hand, the tech giant is also cleaning up old legal messes. One of them is a 14-year-old class-action lawsuit claiming its old AdWords system charged advertisers for clicks that came from outside their target zones.