A federal court judge rules -- that Google is an illegal monopoly

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Good time to get a chromebook or not? If their product is so good that everyone chooses to use it, is it really a monopoly?
 

How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment​

Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

In late 2008, as Google faced antitrust scrutiny over an advertising deal with its rival Yahoo and confronted lawsuits involving patent, trademark and copyright claims, its executives sent out a confidential memo.

“We believe that information is good,” the executives told employees in the memo. But, they added, government regulators or competitors might seize on words that Google workers casually, thoughtlessly wrote to one another.

To minimize the odds that a lawsuit could flush out comments that might be incriminating, Google said, employees should refrain from speculation and sarcasm and “think twice” before writing one another about “hot topics.” “Don’t comment before you have all the facts,” they were instructed.

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Google holds an illegal monopoly in ad sales, court rules​

A federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Google’s advertising technology unit is an illegal monopoly, in the second of two Justice Department antitrust cases against the tech giant.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia comes as an additional blow for Google, which last year lost another federal monopoly case filed by the Justice Department against its search engine and faces antitrust pressure in the European Union.

The Alexandria case revolves around the major role Google plays in brokering the sale of online advertisements to news outlets and other website operators.

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