Google’s Default Distribution Deals Drive Search Monopoly Decision – JD Supra
This week’s decision in United States v. Google represents a significant victory for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and various state attorneys general, which successfully argued that Google has exercised anticompetitive practices to maintain its dominant position in the general search market and in the market for text advertising in search (U.S., et al. v. Google LLC, No. 1:20-CV-3010-APM, D. D.C.).
The court determined that Google has monopoly position in general search services, which it achieved – and continues to grip forcefully – through exclusive deals with smartphone manufacturers, browser developers, and wireless services that make its search engine the default.
These deals have blocked competitors from gaining more than relative slivers of the market, stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice. While specific remedies will come later, the ruling opens the door for potential structural remedies, like breaking up Google’s search business, or…
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