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Google Monopoly Drama Should Have Big Tech Nervous
Tech analysts and legal experts weigh in on what a ruling that Google is a "monopolist" means for Big Tech giants.
"That analytical process of figuring out what, in real terms, competes with other things, and not let the defendant kind of throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, is one of the hallmarks of the Google decision," Baer said. Instead of complex mathematical models, Mehta looked at internal documents, the conduct of the businesses themselves, and testimony from rival companies to define the "search market" Google monopolized. In the nearly 300-page ruling, US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote that parent company Alphabet's deals to make Google the default search engine on other platforms violated corporate competition laws while accruing billions of dollars in revenue.
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