Google loses antitrust case over search

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loses antitrust case over search

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Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.

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A federal U.S. judge ruled Monday that

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has illegally held a monopoly in two market areas: search and text advertising.

The landmark case from the government alleged that

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has kept its share of the general search market by creating strong barriers to entry and a feedback loop that sustained its dominance. The court found that

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violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which outlaws monopolies.

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is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in the decision.

The court homed in on

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’s exclusive search arrangements on Android and Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, saying that they helped to cement

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’s anticompetitive behavior and dominance over the search markets.

The Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of attorneys general from 38 states and territories, led by Colorado and Nebraska, filed similar but separate antitrust suits against

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in 2020. The suits were combined for pretrial purposes, such as discovery of evidence.

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