Google illegally maintained online search monopoly, US court rules – Sky News
Google illegally maintained an online search monopoly, a US court has said, in one of the biggest rulings against the company’s market dominance.
The tech giant has been successfully sued in federal court by the US Justice Department and states which argued it remained the most used internet search engine by paying smartphone makers billions to make Google the default on browsers and devices.
This created anti-competitive barriers to entry for potential new or smaller search engines and further entrenched Google’s position, the government and 38 states and territories, led by Colorado and Nebraska, argued.
Regulators in the US have been trying to limit the power of tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta through cases taken by the Justice Department as well as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Exclusive searches and Google ads
In particular, it focussed on Google’s exclusive search agreement on Android, iPhones and iPads.
The department had…
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