US judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in search

A federal decide dominated that Google has illegally abused its monopoly over the search business. The ruling follows a 10-week trial held in 2023, which adopted a 2020 lawsuit.

Choose Amit Mehta of the US District Court docket for the District of Columbia wrote within the ruling that the corporate had acted “to keep up its monopoly.”

The lawsuit claimed that Google illegally acted to keep up its dominant place in search by means of conduct like paying Apple, Samsung and Mozilla billions of {dollars} a 12 months to be the default search engine on smartphones, browsers and elsewhere. The DOJ argued Google is accountable for nearly 90 p.c of internet searches.

Mehta has not imposed any treatments on Google but, however he might demand it change the way it operates and even promote elements of the enterprise. Google plans to attraction.

— Mat Smith

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