The Justice Department successfully argued that Google acted as a monopoly. Now comes the tricky part: Deciding what to do about it.
DOJ attorneys are considering a number of options they could propose to US District of Columbia District Court Judge Amit Mehta as early as next month, according to reporting by) to forcing the company to make its search engine data available to competitors to ending agreements that secure its search engine as a default on mobile devices and internet browsers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai leaves a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, last October after closing arguments in the antitrust case against Google. The remedies proposed by prosecutors could remake the market for online search, or have little impact at all, according to legal experts, depending on what takes place over the coming months.
The judge would lose the right to impose remedies if Google is found not to have broken the law, on appeal. "You can't just yank the rug out from under the American public that's been using Google's service, now ingrained in our culture, without a substitute," Hittinger said. "Unless other competitors have a platform which is the same or better than Google, what's the public supposed to use in the meantime?"IN 1964 Xerox CEO Joseph Wilson holds 2400 copies of an original reproduced in one hour on a new Xerox copier.
The data, which helps search engines track what users are searching and how they navigate to a particular website, could help DuckDuckGo and other more privacy-oriented search engines compete against Google.
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