Judges mulling what to impose on Google to restore online search competition, states WaPo
Google makes lots of money but has had a miserable year in court, and its judicial travails are far from over, reports The Washington Post.
In the waning days of 2023, a federal jury in San Francisco declared Google’s app store an illegal monopoly. In August, a federal judge in D.C. made the same determination for the keystone of its more than $300 billion in annual revenue: the Google search engine. And on Monday, the company goes on trial again, in Virginia, this time on monopoly charges related to its online advertising business.
According to The Post: “Monopoly charges of that magnitude are a rarity. Google is one of only a handful of corporate giants to be taken to court since the 1970s under federal monopoly law. For decades since, U.S. officials have treated high-tech companies gingerly, leery of damaging the nation’s economic engines and of punishing exemplars of innovation and free enterprise.”
Judges in San Francisco and Washington are now mulling what so-called remedies to impose on Google to restore competition in the markets for app stores and online search, adds The Post.
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