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"Living Social and Groupon have introduced a new element to local search," said Dale Carr, chief executive of online and mobile advertising network Lead Bolt. "Previously this was dormant inventory that would have just sat there and anyone could have bought it cheaply." The new activity is increasing costs and crowding out other local advertisers. It has also raised the cost of acquiring customers for the daily deal industry itself, putting a potential break on rapid growth of the sector. Competition is fiercest for local services such as restaurants, spas, gym memberships and yoga classes, according to Chris Wallace of digital marketing agency iCrossing. Groupon is the most aggressive, according to Wallace, followed by Living Social and Google, which has its own daily deal business called Google Offers. When competition from daily deal companies is particularly intense, local advertisers can end up on page two of Google search results and that often means no one clicks on their ads, Wallace explained. "It's scary for them," Wallace said. "Once a daily deals aggregator enters a market they're unlikely to leave. The number of services they offer will likely increase and the number of search terms they bid on will increase." 'SPAMMING GOOGLE' San Francisco Comprehensive Tours sued Groupon in March saying the daily deal company caused a surge in the cost of its paid search advertising. Since 2005, Bilello's company has used Google's paid search system AdWords to promote its tours of the Bay Area. The approach was "cost effective," placing ads on one of the top three to four spots on Google results pages when users searched with phrases including "San Francisco Tours," "Alcatraz tours" and "Napa Wine tours," the suit said. Around September 2010, the cost of these ads began to "skyrocket" and its paid search ranking fell, while Groupon started to appear near the top for results based on the same phrases, the complaint said. Groupon used "bait and switch" advertising techniques because the company rarely offered discounted tours in the Bay Area, the suit said. "They're spamming Google, throwing out all of these search terms that they have nothing to do with, paying more and crowding out other advertisers so they can suck more people into their Groupon world," said Steven Williams, an attorney representing San Francisco Comprehensive Tours. DEACTIVATED Searches using the terms "San Francisco tours," "Alcatraz tours" and "Napa wine tours" on the afternoon of October 7 showed no Groupon paid ads. Williams said Google deactivated some Groupon ads because Groupon's deals had little relevance to the ads. 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