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What’s at stake in the Google antitrust case? Billions of dollars (and the way we use the internet)
Whenever you type a search into Apple’s Safari browser — say, on an iPhone — chances are it’s Google that returns the results.
Closing arguments in the case will continue through Friday, and District Judge Amit Mehta is expected to issue a decision later this year after sitting through a grueling 10-week trial last fall that was largely shut to the public. Government attorneys in the case argue that Google maintained an illegal monopoly through a web of contracts that made its search engine the default on millions of devices and browsers around the globe. “If that’s what it takes for somebody to dislodge Google as the default search engine, wouldn’t the folks who wrote the Sherman Act be concerned about that?” Mehta asked, referring to a key US antitrust law.
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