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Google 'is a monopolist' in search, US judge rules in antitrust case
A judge has ruled that Google has illegally maintained a monopoly in the online search market. It is not yet clear what remedies the judge will impose on the company.
Google is in deep trouble after a federal judge ruled that the company illegally abused a monopoly over the search industry. The DOJ argued that Google facilitates almost 90 percent of web searches and that by paying to be the default option, it prevented rivals from achieving the kind of scale needed to compete. Meanwhile, Mehta declined to impose sanctions on Google for failing to preserve employee chat messages that may have been pertinent to the case.
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