Educational technology firm Chegg is in a legal tangle with Google, accusing the latter of denting its site traffic and earnings. This accusation is rooted in Google's habit of using AI-generated summaries for search results. To get the full scoop, check out the news piece from CNBC.

Chegg catapulted this argument straight into the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They allege that the search behemoth is playing dirty with its monopolistic tactics. Chegg believes that Google strong-arms companies into surrendering their content to appear in Google Search, unabashedly exploiting its search engine dominance to profit from the intellectual property of others.

Chegg's sights are set on securing compensatory damages and other kinds of relief. The company also wants the court to drop the hammer on Google's purported "illegal and unjust” practices.

Worth noting is that Chegg is just the most recent publisher to butt heads with Google over the integration of AI into its search feature. The list of publishers peeved about having their site traffic bruised by Google's AI-produced search summaries seems to be growing, as these various news outlets report. The controversial feature pulls in information from all corners of the internet to answer user queries on Google Search.

We've forwarded our questions to Google and expect to update this article as soon as we get their side of the story.