A federal judge ruled against Google in a landmark antitrust case. The Google case was the first of several federal government lawsuits against Big Tech companies.
The case took two years to litigate, and Google has already said it would appeal the decision.
The judge ruled that the tech giant has engaged in illegal practices to preserve its search engine monopoly. This delivers a major antitrust victory to the Justice Department in its effort to rein in Silicon Valley players.
The government’s offensive against Google can be compared to the DOJ’s landmark antitrust case against Microsoft in 1998. That case concluded with a settlement forcing Microsoft to alter its business practices.
The parallels between these two cases twenty-five years apart, highlight the challenge of regulating monopolistic behavior in the rapidly developing technology economy.
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