Judge rules Google illegally maintained a search monopoly

A federal judge has ruled that Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is a "monopolist." Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google illegally maintained its monopoly on internet search by paying companies that operate web browsers to be the default search engine. Google says it plans to appeal the ruling.
Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at The Abundance Institute, explains the ruling like this "The judge parsed out the fact that Google is a monopolist in this market and then said the problem here is maintaining that monopoly, not earning that monopoly. So being the best is how you might earn a monopoly, but then if you maintain it using anti-competitive conduct, that's what they were focused on here."
Chilson and Yahoo Finance legal reporter Alexis Keenan discuss the decision in the video above.
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[JoeD]

Let’s talk about how YouTube is burying videos like this. They manipulate their recommendation engine to gaslight.

[Independent-xq]

Google has allowed law enforcement illegal access to my account with no subpoena or legal reason for it.

[cimbakahn]

Google is not the best search engine! 2:22

[haroldcampos]

I hate that they delete inactive accounts. I don't know why, it just bothers me.

[baltakatei]

2:56 “Earning a monopoly” implies they are consensually given which they are not, by definition. You literally cannot consent to choosing a monopolist because they are the only choice available.

[TheBooban]

So since it’s illegal to pay to be default search engine…Google gets it for free now?

[lgbfjb]

This is like if one single media company had a monopoly on telling the news

[rafal]

I remember when yahoo was a thing. Another victim of google monopoly and DEI

[eh]

Good! This will affect Apple just as much!

[LvUpRED]

There's absolutely no surprise here

[ThatSlowTypingGuy]

As long as it doesn't mean I have to use that busted ass yahoo search engine I had to use back in the 90's the judge can do whatever.

[spicywater]

They totally let this happen. They are trying to force people into investing into AI by trashing a known brand. Disney has been doing the same thing for years.

[dnc]

So what’s the alternative ?

It’s not Chandler Bing!!

[godzinna]

On every computer i go on, google is not the main search engine. Its either bing or duckduckgo. If you download google chrome then everything is going to be google. This seems kind of dumb and only situational based or if youre on a phone

[geronimotanto]

DONT USE THEM ANYMORE, USE BRAVE BROWSER

[carlosgamez]

I don’t understand this, haven’t we always been able to choose what search engine we can use? It’s not googles fault they beat out the other search engines

[CalebRazzleberry]

Pretty funny to see this posted by Yahoo…. Lmao they must not be bitter at all

[Blessed_Souls]

okay but like.. EXPLAIN IT TO ME LIKE IM 5, thanks.

[Lycoris]

Good. Google is keep providing unfair searching results with more and more ads everywhere.