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

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August 14, 2024

Google is an Illegal Monopoly, Federal Court Rules​

Following a nine-week bench trial starting in September 2023 and closing arguments in May 2024, District of Columbia district court judge Amit Mehta ruled on August 5, 2024, that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in markets for general search services and general search text advertisements in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The case was initially brought in 2020 when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and nearly every state’s attorney general sued Google, alleging that it unlawfully uses distribution agreements to stifle competition and maintain its monopoly position in multiple markets relating to online search and advertising.
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Earlier this year, Google lost a massive antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Now the tech giant could be forced to sell off Google Chrome, the most popular web browser in the world.

According to sources speaking to Bloomberg, the DOJ reportedly intends to recommend that Google be ordered to sell off its Chrome browser as a remedy in its significant antitrust lawsuit. ...
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The loss of its Chrome browser isn't the only painful consequence Google could potentially see from this antitrust crackdown. Bloomberg reports that the DOJ will also request measures regarding Google's Android operating system and artificial intelligence, as well as concerning data licensing requirements.

Specifically, the DOJ will reportedly recommend that Google be ordered to unbundle its Android mobile operating system from its other products, offering it to clients separately from other services such as Google Search and the Google Play store. (Fortunately for the tech giant, the DOJ no longer appears to be pushing for it to sell off Android altogether.) The DOJ will further propose that Google be ordered to provide websites more options for opting out of having their content used by its AI, licence the data from its search engine, and give advertisers more control regarding where their ads appear.
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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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Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions​

  • The European Commission fined Google 2.95 billion euros ($3.45 billion) for distorting competition in the so-called adtech market.
  • The Commission accused Google of unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology services and called on the company to end the alleged practice.
  • The fine had reportedly been delayed as regulators were waiting for the U.S. to cut tariffs on European cars as part of a trade deal.
Google was on Friday hit with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) antitrust fine from European Union regulators for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative advertising technology business.

The European Commission, which is the executive body of the EU, accused Google of distorting competition in the so-called adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology services to the detriment of rival adtech providers, advertisers and online publishers.

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Every (public, non-charter) school kid in this state has a free chromebook and the teachers require a gmail account. Smart marketing by google. Kids think it is just the one to use. Like a fed reserve note being synonymous with money.
 

Google hit with EU antitrust investigation over use of online content for AI​

  • The European Commission said it was probing whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers for AI purposes.
  • The bloc said it would investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers’ content without appropriate compensation.
  • The move follows a slew of actions the bloc has taken against U.S big tech companies in recent days.
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Google was on Tuesday hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of online content for AI purposes, marking the latest in a series of crackdowns from the bloc on regulating U.S. big tech companies.

The European Commission said it was investigating whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube, for AI purposes.

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