Wyndham Settles Antitrust Claims Over Rigged Hotel Web Searches

Wyndham Hotel Group LLC has settled claims in Texas federal court that it participated in a scheme by some of the country’s top hotel chains to rig the sponsored results highlighted by online search engines.

The hotel chain and plaintiff Travelpass LLC, a Utah company that sells hotel rooms through search engine ads, filed a joint motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas dismissing Wyndham from the antitrust case with prejudice.

The filing Tuesday, which says “the parties have resolved all differences,” doesn’t explicitly disclose the terms of any agreement, but it was docketed about ...