Google loses massive antitrust case over search. What judge’s ruling means for you.

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loses massive antitrust case over search. What judge’s ruling means for you.

In the most significant legal ruling against a major technology giant in more than two decades, a federal judge says

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and advertising by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to install

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as the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers.

By monopolizing search queries on smartphones and browsers,

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abused its dominance in the search market, throttling competition and harming consumers, Mehta said in his 286-page decision. 

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owes much of its more than $300 billion in annual revenue to search ads.

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, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote.

The massive win for the Justice Department could fundamentally

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. It also could change how we use and experience the internet.

The Justice Department filed antitrust charges during the final weeks of the Trump administration, making good on Donald Trump’s pledge to challenge the runaway power of Big Tech. That mission continued during the Biden administration, which has been aggressive in pursuing antitrust cases.

“This victory against

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is an historic win for the ********* people,” Attorney General Garland said in a statement. “No company – no matter how large or influential – is above the law.”

The case is the most significant victory for the Justice Department in a monopoly case in decades, said Notre Dame Law School professor Roger Alford, who served in the Justice Department’s antitrust division. “Not since

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lost in the 1990s have we seen a case of this magnitude.”

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said it would appeal the decision. Kent Walker, president of global affairs, said the judge recognized that

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“offers the best search engine.”

“As this process continues, we will remain focused on making products that people find helpful and easy to use,” Walker said in a statement.

If upheld, the decision will be a “major boost” for other antitrust cases pending against

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as well as other major tech players like

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, Apple and Meta, said Loyola University Chicago School of Law professor Spencer Weber Waller.

Monday’s ruling did not include remedies. Remedies will be decided separately, likely after an appeal. One remedy could see

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losing its ability to strike device deals that have helped make its search engine so ubiquitous.

Devising the right remedy is critical to restoring competition to the marketplace, Waller said.

“There are no fines or monetary penalties in these types of cases, but the court will have to decide whether

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should be broken up in some way. More likely, it will order

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to eliminate the exclusive contracts and licensing restrictions that have reinforced its monopoly position for years,” he said.

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has argued that its distribution deals are common in the business world. It pays for its search engine to be on phones the way a food manufacturer pays to promote its products at eye level in a grocery store aisle.

The way

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sees it, if you don’t like

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,

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the default search engine on your device. But people don’t switch,

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says, because they prefer

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CEO Satya Nadella

Chamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich said the antitrust ruling is a boost for

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’s

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search engine.

“The biggest winner from today’s ruling isn’t consumers or little tech, it’s

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,” Kovacevich said in a statement. “

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has underinvested in search for decades, but today’s ruling opens the door to a court mandate of default deals for

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. That’s a slap in the face to consumers who chose

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because they think it’s the best.”

During the 10-week trial,

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CEO Satya Nadella testified that

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’s unchallenged dominance created a “

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web.”

“You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth and you search on

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,” Nadella said at one point in his testimony. “Everybody talks about the open web, but there is really the

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web.”

Nadella has expressed concern that

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’s disadvantage would increase as artificial intelligence becomes a major factor in search.

“Despite my enthusiasm that there is a new angle with A.I., I worry a lot that this vicious cycle that I’m trapped in could get even more vicious,” Nadella said during the trial.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:

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