Will The U.S. Break Up Google?

In August 2024, a federal judge determined that the online search giant Google is a monopolist that wields its power to stifle competition. The court opinion builds on years of investigation into one of the most valuable companies in the U.S. stock market. Some observers believe the raft of antitrust lawsuits could lead to a structural break-up of Google, which could potentially unlock value for investors.

Chapters:
00:00-00:50 Cold Open
00:51-05:47 Chapter 1: The cases against Google
05:47-09:41 Chapter 2: Restoring competition
09:41-13:07 Chapter 3: The investment outlook

Produced and Edited by: Carlos Waters
Supervising Producer: Lindsey Jacobson
Animation: Christina Locopo
Additional Footage: Getty Images
Additional Sources: Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, Cornell Law School, Epic Games, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. District Courts, Securities and Exchange Commission, Smart Asset, Statcounter, Temple University

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Will The U.S. Break Up Google?

[sanskarsharma]

Irony - This video is posted on that platform which is also owned by google itself 😂

[joeedo]

Google is a monopoly but insurance providers and electricity providers upping their prices when you have no other options is not a monopoly? LOL

[youngaries]

While I don't disagree with some of the video's points on mobile devices, Chrome is not the one trying to auto-install itself like Bing and Yahoo as a default browser on desktop.

[laxman]

They won’t do a thing. Perfect time to buy Google stock

[BRBallin]

Tech is the 1 industry where the more powerful the company the more capable and high quality the tech becomes. Breaking up a tech company won’t raise the ceiling on technological advancements

[cybersteady]

If they break up Google, they will need to break up Microsoft, amazon, and apple. Notice how they said the whole case is that google uses its dominance in one area to succeed in another, its not a level playing field. Same exact thing can be said for the other tech conglomerates. If this goes through we are going to see a massive break up of our largest companies.

[sauceokay]

I hardly see any users with complaints about Google, only the government... we don't like using Bing anyways and don't know of any other platform that can match Youtube

[bwogisean]

Separating Microsoft’s browser and operating system allowed Google to compete with their browser … Google had new innovations and are the leader today due to that.

[fUzZyboY]

How come Adobe never got an antitrust lawsuit for monopolizing the graphic software market?

[dunggg]

The funniest thing in this video are the thought that Duck Duck Go is a relevant search engine (its not) and that Epic Games will pass the savings to customers if the Google Play store fees is reduced (they wont) 🤣

[rebokfleetfoot]

if you can't manage to change your default search you probably should just walk away from the keyboard :)

[DJAlexParker]

It does not take 10-15 steps to change a default browser. Also you get asked during device setup and have the option to choose duckduckgo

[bricewayne]

I'm not a programmer, but I can tell you there is code in the Apache license, which is supposed to be a simple text document.

[Hshjshshjsj]

The problem is the other search engines are really lousy though

[hhydar]

United States market is heavily monopolized and nothing changes because the politicians also have huge shares in those companies.

[samzai]

Why are we not talking about Amazon and it's monopolistic competition over the internet?

[bass]

Google does not depend on nvidia gpus. It's for third party consumers.

[lowp]

Google is the only big tech stock trading with a good P/E.

[homeandbackyard]

what I noticed on my google search these days is that it did not really give me what I was looking for.

[johnsavage]

They did this with Standard Oil and see what happened. Things got worse.