The ruling paves the way for a second trial to determine potential fixes, possibly including a break-up of Alphabet.
WASHINGTON - Alphabet’s Google broke the law with an illegal monopoly on online search, a federal judge ruled on Aug 5, the first big win for US antitrust authorities who have filed several lawsuits challenging Big Tech’s market dominance.
“The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” District Judge Amit Mehta wrote. The search engine giant controls about 90 per cent of the online search market, and 95 per cent on smartphones. Alphabet said it plans to appeal Judge Mehta’s ruling. “This decision recognises that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,” Google said in a statement.
He noted “Google, of course, recognises that losing defaults would dramatically impact its bottom line. For instance, Google has projected that losing the Safari default would result in a significant drop in queries and billions of dollars in lost revenues”. In the past four years, federal antitrust regulators have also sued Meta Platforms, Amazon.com, and Apple, claiming the companies have illegally maintained monopolies. Those cases all began under the administration of former President Donald Trump.
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