US court rules Google has illegal monopoly

federal judge in the US has ruled that Google has an “illegal monopoly” on internet search and search advertising. US federal judge Amit Mehta announced his long-awaited decision today regarding the case pitting the US Department of Justice against Google. In his decision, Judge Mehta stated, “As a result of its detailed review of the witnesses and evidence, the court has reached the following conclusion: Google is a monopoly and has acted to protect that monopoly. This is in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” With this decision, the US Department of Justice has won a case of this magnitude for the first time in the antitrust cases it has filed to date. Google, which has lost a major case in internet search for the first time, was announced today that it may appeal the process after its loss. The Justice Department had previously filed two antitrust lawsuits against Google on the grounds that it controls more than 90 percent of internet search and more than 95 percent in this category as a mobile search engine. Google filed an "antitrust" lawsuit In a statement made by the US Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was announced that an "antitrust" lawsuit was filed against Google in the Eastern District Court for the District of Virginia with the attorneys general of the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia. The statement, which stated that the company monopolized many digital advertising technology products, alleged that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary, and illegal methods to eliminate or seriously reduce any threat to its dominance in the industry. The statement, which stated that Google has neutralized or eliminated its ad technology competitors through acquisitions over the last 15 years, conveyed that the company uses its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products and prevents the use of competing products. The statement stated that Google has thus consolidated its dominance in the industry, and also included the content of the company's anti-competitive behavior. The US Department of Justice also filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in 2020 for monopolizing search and search advertising.