Google broke the law with monopolistic behavior, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Google broke the law with monopolistic behaviour over online search and related advertising, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday, the first victory for U.S. antitrust authorities who have filed numerous lawsuits challenging Big Tech's market dominance.
The decision is a significant win for the U.S. Justice Department, which had sued the search engine giant over its control of about 90 per cent of the online search market, and 95 per cent on smartphones. Ultimately, Google will have a chance to appeal the court's rulings to the U.S. District Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit.
"The default is extremely valuable real estate," Mehta wrote. "Even if a new entrant were positioned from a quality standpoint to bid for the default when an agreement expires, such a firm could compete only if it were prepared to pay partners upwards of billions of dollars in revenue share and make them whole for any revenue shortfalls resulting from the change."He added: "Google, of course, recognizes that losing defaults would dramatically impact its bottom line.
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