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Google's Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling
This week, a US federal district court judge ruled that Google was a monopolist. It's been a long time coming.
Barely a year old, Google was still under the radar for most people, and few knew its compelling story: Page put the whole World Wide Web on Stanford University servers to divine the perfect result of a search query, and Brin did some mathematical wizardry to fulfill the concept. And this week US federal district court judge Amit P. Mehta issued a 286-page ruling, based on millions of documents, thousands of exhibits, and a nine-week trial, that Google violated antitrust law. On the morning of November 5, 2008, the DOJ informed Google that later that day it would charge the company with a violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, calling the Yahoo agreement a restraint of free trade.
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