Google loses massive antitrust case over search – TechCrunch
Google has suffered a major court defeat in the U.S. that could alter the way it does business, should the decision stand.
Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling in a case brought against Google by the Justice Department, said that Google had abused its monopoly power over the search business in part by paying companies to present its search engine as the default choice on their devices and web browsers.
Google pays companies including Apple and Mozilla billions of dollars for prime placement in web browsers and on smartphones. According to The New York Times, Google paid Apple about $18 billion to be the default search engine on iPhones in 2021; Google shares 36% of search ad revenue from Safari with Apple.
“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta…
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