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Now that Google is a monopolist, what’s next?
It might be a while before we find out.
William Kovacic, a former Federal Trade Commission chair and a professor at George Washington University, tells The Verge that he expects Judge Amit Mehta to hold a roughly weeklong hearing on remedies this year and believes the overall process could stretch to the end of 2024. Mehta could demand Google modify its multibillion-dollar deals with companies like Apple and Mozilla, for instance, which cement it as the default search engine on products like the iPhone. Microsoft, for instance, narrowly avoided being split up in the early 2000s — the incoming George W. Bush administration settled its predecessors’ case instead of pushing through an appeals court defeat.
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