Google Loses Antitrust Case, Historic Ruling Against Big Tech Companies

In a landmark ruling against US IT giants, a federal judge said Google had acted illegally, without honoring freedom of competition, to maintain its monopoly in online search.

“Google is a monopolist and has acted as such to maintain its monopoly,” said US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta in a 277-page ruling, which found that Google had abused its monopoly in web search and related advertising.

A few months later comes the verdict in what many analysts are calling “the antitrust trial of the century,” if only because it concerns an action that billions of people take every day, several times a day: “to google” a few words.

Specifically, the Mountain View (California) company, which everyone recognizes as having revolutionized the Internet, “protects” the primacy gained in this area through monopolistic methods, such as agreements with Apple and Samsung, who paid generously to set Google’s search engine as the default. There is more than $300 billion dollars’ worth of advertising activity around this every year.

While the implications of this decision for the company will only be known in the medium term, it is clear that a front is open that could change how IT giants operate in the markets. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against “big tech” under the Biden administration, and this is the first sensational decision that may point in the direction to go.