Google has lost an antitrust case over its smartphone search system, with a federal court ruling that the tech giant illegally held a monopoly on search and text advertising for the past decade.
“After careful consideration of the witness testimony and evidence, the Court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopoly and has acted as a monopoly to maintain its monopoly,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Monday. decision.
Judge Mehta added that Google had been found to have violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which bans monopolies.
The tech giant was accused of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act by “entering exclusivity agreements that ensured default distribution on virtually every desktop and mobile device in the United States, thereby unlawfully maintaining monopolies in three product markets.”
The court focused on Google’s exclusive search agreements for Android phones and Apple’s iPhones and iPads, saying the agreements contributed to the tech giants’ anti-competitive behavior and entrenched dominance in the search market. report From CNBC.
The U.S. government argued in its lawsuit that Google maintained its share of the general search market by developing strong barriers to entry and feedback loops that kept the tech giant dominant.
The case stems from a 2020 lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a bipartisan group of attorneys general from 38 states and territories, which filed similar but separate antitrust lawsuits against Google that were later consolidated into a single lawsuit against the tech giant.
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