will establish how Google should be punished.
Google has violeted US antitrust policy with its Google search business, and its second trial might change the way millions of Americans access information online and could end Google’s decades of dominance.
US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in Monday’s opinion: ”After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”
The verdict by the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Google's antitrust case is a breathtaking reprimand of Google's oldest and major business. Google has invested tens of billions of dollars on private contracts to ensure its leading position as global’s default search supplier both on web browsers and smartphones.
The US government claimed in another significant Google antitrust case that Google’s suspicious contracts have helped Google to block its potential rivals, such as Microsoft’s Bing and DuckDuckGo. That powerful position has conducted to anti-competitive behaviors, that must be forbidden, says Judge Amit Mehta.
In the Google antitrust case, the judge claimed that especially Google's deals with Apple and other main players in the mobile field were anti-competitive. In addition, he said Google supercharged prices in search advertising and would be another point that shows Google monopoly force in search.
Mehta wrote this in Google antitrust case 286-page ruling: “The trial evidence firmly established that Google’s monopoly power, maintained by the exclusive distribution agreements, has enabled Google to increase text ads prices without any meaningful competitive constraint. Unconstrained price increases have fueled Google’s dramatic revenue growth and allowed it to maintain high and remarkably stable operating profits.”
His decision was probably the most complete modern investigation of the Google search business, which through the past 26 years has grown into a $175 billion annual income that registers for the majority of Google parent company Alphabet’s profits. Google will appeal, as it is endangered to lose its leadership placement on iPhones and other portals on Internet.
Google’s director of global business, Kent Walker, claimed in a report that Google will battle against decision, because it “recognizes that Google search engine is the best, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easy available.”
On the other hand, in the Google search case, some analysts claimed that Google's search monopoly, nurtured by an endless provide of user search questions, would eventually enable it to leapfrog to a leading position in artificial intelligence.
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