Google search ‘illegal monopoly ruling’ set to shake up internet – Yahoo Singapore News
A judge has ruled that Google’s search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to quash competition and stifle innovation in a decision that could shake up the internet.
US district judge Amit Mehta’s ruling came nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting America’s Justice Department against the tech giant in the country’s biggest anti-trust showdown for a quarter of a century.
After reviewing evidence that included testimony from senior executives at Google, Microsoft and Apple during last year’s 10-week trial, Judge Mehta said: “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”
Google “enjoys an 89.2 per cent share of the market for general search services, which increases to 94.9 per cent on mobile devices”, the 277-page ruling said.
It represents a major setback for Google and its parent, Alphabet, which had argued that its popularity stemmed from consumers’ overwhelming desire to use a search engine so good that it has become…
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