Google has been qualified as an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time to illegally explode part of its online marketing technology to profits that feed an internet empire that currently are worth $ 1.8 billion.
Google has been qualified as a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time to illegally explode part of its online marketing technology to increase profits that feed an internet empire that is currently worth $ 1.8 billion.
The ruling issued Thursday by the United States District Judge, Leonie Brinkema, in Virginia, arrives after A separate decision in August That concluded that Google’s homonymous search engine has been illegally taking advantage of its domain to suffocate competition and innovation.
After the US Department of Justice. UU. He went to the omnipresent Google search engine During the first administration of President Donald TrumpThe same agency was after the lucrative digital advertising network of the company in 2023 during The subsequent administration of President Joe Biden In an attempt to undermine the power that Google has accumulated since its inception in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998.
Although antitrust regulators prevailed both times, it is likely that the battle will continue for several more years, since Google tries to revoke the two monopoly decisions in the appeals while being advanced in the New and highly lucrative technological border of artificial intelligence.
The next step in the last case is a penalty phase that will probably begin at the end of this year or early next year. The same so -called “remedy” hearings in the case of search monopoly are scheduled to start Monday at Washington DC, where the lawyers of the Department of Justice will try to convince the United States District Judge, Amit Mehta, to impose a radical punishment that includes A proposed requirement for Google to sell your Chrome web browser.
