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A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means

The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?

"[T]hose were the mechanisms for gaining share, for preventing the emergence of new competitors, and for monetizing its search monopoly," said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. Regulators will have another shot at forcing a break up later this month in the remedies phase of a different antitrust case the US government is mounting against Google -- over its dominance of advertising technology. The judge found himself in an uncomfortable spot: asked "to predict the future of a rapidly changing market rather than merely look at historical facts," said Jennifer Huddleston, a senior fellow in technology policy at the conservative-learning think tank the Cato Institute.

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