Google will confront an existent threat monday as the US government tries to break up the company as Punishment for Turning its revolutionary search engine into a ruthless monopoly.
The Drama will unfold in a washington court during the next three weeks during hearings that will determin how the company should be penalized for operating an Illegal Monopoly in Search. The proceedings, Known in legal parlance as a “Remedy hearing,” Feature a parade of witnesses that incines Google Ceo Sundar Pichai.
The us department of justice is asking a federal judge to order a radical shake-up that would ban google from striking the Mulatibillion Dollar Deals With Apple and OTHER TECH Companies that Shiels SEILDITS SEERCH EITS SEETS From competition, share its repository of valuable user data with rivals and force a salary of its popular chrome browser.
The moment of Reckoning Comes Four-RALF-YEARS after the Justice Department Fled a Landmark Lawsuit Alleging Google’s search engine has been abusing ite power as the internet ‘ Competition and Innovation for more than a decade.
After the case finally went to trial in 2023, A Federal Judge Last Year Rules Google Had Been Making Anti-Competitive Deals to Lock in its search engine Personal computers and other widely used devices, including running on its own Android software.
That landmark ruling by us district judge amit mehta sets up a high-stakes drama that will determine the penalties for google’s misconduct in a search market Brin founded the company in a Silicon Valley Garage in 1998.
Since that Austere Start, Google has expanded far beyond search to become a powerhouse in email, digital mapping, online video, web browsing, smartphone software and data centers.
Seizing Upon Its Victory in the search case, the justice department is now setting out to prove that radical steps must be taken to rein in google and its corporate paper, alphabet inst.
“Google’s Illegal Conduct Has Created An Economic Goliath, One that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that – No matter what Occurs – Google Always Wins,” The Juttice DePARTICE ARWATES WINS Documents Outlining Its Proposed Penalties. “The american people thus are forced to accept the unbridled demands and shifting, ideological preferences of an economyic leviathan in return for a search engine the publicic may enjoy.”
Although the proposed penalties were originally made under President Against Google. Since the change in administrations, the justice department has also Attempted to Cast Google’s immense immense power as a threat to freedom, too.
“The american dream is about higher values than just cheap goods and ‘free’ online services,” The Justice Department Wrote in a March 7 Filing With Mehta. “These Values include freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to innovate, and freedom to compe in a market undistorted by the controlling hand of a monopolist.”
Google is arguing the government’s proposed changes are unwarranted under
The “Unprecedented Array of Proposed Remedies would Harm Consures and Innovation, as Well as Future Competition in Search and Search Ads in Addition to Numerous Other Adjacent Markets,” Google Chatyers bodyless in Affery Up to hearings. “They bear little or no relationship to the conduct found anticompetitive, and are contrary to the law.”
Google also is Sounding Alarms about the proposed requirements to share online search data with rivals and the proposed sales of chrome posing privacy and second sale of chromes. “The breadth and depth of the proposed Remedies Risks Doing Significant Damage to a Complex EcoSystem. Consures. “
The showdown over Google’s Fate Marks The Climax of the biggest Antitrust Case in the Us Since the Justice Department Sued Microsoft in the Late 1990s for Leveraging Its Computers to Crush Potential Rivals.
The Microsoft Battle Culminated in a Federal Judge Declaring The Company an Illlegal Monopoly and Ordering a Partial Breakup – a Remedy That was Evently Overtulned by an appeales.
Google intends to file an appeal of mehta’s ruling from last year that branded its search engine as an illgal monopoly but can’t do so until the remedy hearings are complete. After closing arguments are presented in late may, mehta intends to make his decision on the remedies before labor day.
The search case marked the first in a success of antitrust cases that have ben brought against a litany of tech giants that include facebook and instagram param paras Fighting allegations of running an Illegal monopoly in social media in another washington dc trial. Other Antitrust Cases Have Been Burght Against Both Apple and Amazon, too.
The justice department also targeted google’s digital advertising network in a separete antitrust case Market, too. That ruling means Google will be heading into another remedy hearing that could once again Raise the Spector of a Breakup Later This Year or Early Next Year.
—Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer
