{"id":1091,"date":"2025-09-03T01:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/us-v-google-all-the-news-from-the-search-antitrust-showdown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:19:57","slug":"us-v-google-all-the-news-from-the-search-antitrust-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/us-v-google-all-the-news-from-the-search-antitrust-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 5th, 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in the case of United States of America v. Google<\/em><\/a>, saying, \u201c\u2026the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nearly a year later, the judge has followed that up with a ruling on remedies for Google\u2019s search monopoly<\/a>. While lawyers for the Department of Justice had argued<\/a> that Google should be broken up and forced to split off products like Chrome, Search, and Android, Judge Mehta has ruled against the DOJ\u2019s proposed remedies<\/a>, banning exclusive deals but leaving others, like its massive search default deal with Apple<\/a>, and allowing Google to keep Chrome.<\/p>\n

Of course, even that isn\u2019t enough to end the biggest tech antitrust trial since the US took on Microsoft in the 1990s \u2014 possibly aside from the government\u2019s antitrust case targeting Google\u2019s ad business<\/a>. Lawyers for Google and the Department of Justice will continue arguing over the ruling in appeals, as well as what to do about the company and its products.<\/p>\n

Read on below for all of the updates and notes from the case.<\/em><\/p>\n