A US federal judge has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars on exclusive deals to maintain an illegal monopoly on search, in a landmark win for the Department of Justice as it seeks to rein in Big Tech’s market power.
Amit Mehta, the judge who presided over the case in the District of Columbia, called Google a “monopolist” in a 286-page decision on Monday that found the company had violated US antitrust law.
The ruling follows a weeks-long trial in which the DoJ argued the search giant paid tens of billions of dollars for anti-competitive deals with wireless carriers, browser developers and device manufacturers. These payments totalled more than $26bn in 2021, according to the decision.
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