Google Illegally Maintains Monopoly Over the Internet: After almost a year the case started on the charge of illegally using its domination by being the default search engine around the world and stomping over competition has now been ruled. The country’s biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century has come to an end.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta after going through a mountain of evidence that includes testimony of the top executives at Google, Microsoft, and Apple during last year’s 10 weak trial ruled out that Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.
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The evidence of Google’s monopoly is evident in its own market share which goes up to 89.2% share on computers and extends to 94.9% on mobile. The loss of the trial is a major blow to Google and Alphabet Inc.(Parent Compay of Google) who have argued that the success of the search engine is due to its quality and consumer demand.
On the other hand, Mehta Ruled that “Google is widely recognized as the best (general search engine) available in the United States.” acknowledging that its quality is a major part of its dominance, for which Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said “This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,” and revealed the company intention to peal Mehta’s findings.
Google generated $240 billion in revenue last year making it the entry of the argument Department lawyers argued that due to its monopolistic ways Google charges high prices from its advertisers along with the luxury of not investing in the upgradation of the product.
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Mehats hearing focused on how much Google spends every year to make it’s product the default search engine in the devices. In 2021 alone Theu had spent $26 billion in the default setting deal.
Google is about to appeal against the ruling. “Google’s loss in its search antitrust trial could be a huge deal — depending on the remedy, said Emarketer senior analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf “Regardless, she added, a drawn-out appeals process will delay any immediate effects for both consumers and advertisers.”
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has declared an all-out war against the a]American capitalist monopoly culture. It sued Apple in March and in May announced a sweeping lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its owner. They have even started an investigation into the roles Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom.
