US Federal Jude Amit Mehta has ruled against Google in an antitrust case, noting that it violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
He agreed with the US government’s allegations that Google has a monopoly of general search services online.
“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 noted, “makes it unlawful for any person to “monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nation.
Mehta, however, rejected the claim, adding that, “The prospect of losing tens of billions in guaranteed revenue from Google — which presently come at little to no cost to Apple — disincentivizes Apple from launching its own search engine when it otherwise has built the capacity to do so.” “Time and again, Google’s partners have concluded that it is financially infeasible to switch default GSEs or seek greater flexibility in search offerings because it would mean sacrificing the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars that Google pays them as revenue share… These are Fortune 500 companies, and they have nowhere else to turn other than Google,” he continued.
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