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🚨 Major Antitrust Ruling on Google Search 🚨 The legal landscape around Big Tech is evolving rapidly, and Google's dominance has recently become a point of contention. A recent ruling highlights the ongoing concerns about monopolistic practices that could be stifling innovation, and sets a precedent for the regulation of tech giants. ✨ Key takeaways: - The Judge ruled that Google violated anti-trust laws, controlling 90% of the #SearchIndustry. - In 2021, Google paid 26.3 billion dollars to maintain dominance. - This investigation was opened by the Trump administration, and a new trial will determine the penalty. How do you think BigTech companies should be regulated to ensure fair competition and equity? Leave your thoughts below! Read the full WIRED article: #HumancentricAI #TechRegulation #Antitrust #Google #AI #Innovation

The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google into smaller companies, citing antitrust violations. This would be the most significant antitrust action against a major tech company since the breakup of AT&T in the 1980s. The government argues that Google has used its dominance in search to stifle competition and harm consumers. Google denies these allegations and says it will appeal the recent court ruling against it. Possible remedies include forcing Google to allow users to choose their default search engine, preventing Google from promoting its own products in search results and limiting Google's ability to use its data to train AI models. Given the potential remedies, what do you think is the most likely outcome of the antitrust case against Google? https://lnkd.in/erRyMief #Antitrust #TechIndustry #Google #Competition

“Google, are you a monopolist?” “Search me.” Here’s a major antitrust ruling showing the shape of things to come: "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly."—Judge Amit P. Mehta, US District Court for the District of Columbia. Interesting that this ruling arrived just when Google’s facing a threat to its dominance from the resuscitated Bing (now powered by OpenAI), SearchGPT (OpenAI’s own offering), Grok from X, and more to come. Apple, Meta and Amazon also face antitrust scrutiny. So there’s more to come on this front.

“This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.” Google has maintained a monopoly over internet search, effectively controlling how people engage with digital information. Unfortunately, they have not wielded this power responsibly, often manipulating data and site rankings to serve their interests. This recent ruling against Google is a long-overdue step towards curbing the excessive power of tech monopolies and opening the market to competitors who cannot be easily bought, crushed, or co-opted. Hopefully, similar actions will be taken against other tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. #BusinessLitigation #LegalInsights #Google #BusinessLaw #Law #lawyers #lawyerlife #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta #Facebook #lawyering #lawsuits #lawschool #lawenforcement

The US federal court decision in Google establishes a near consensus view among global regulators of #competitionlaw that the most fundamental aspects of the Internet economy are unlawfully monopolised. Search is degraded and AI is not the technology that is likely to disrupt Google's search monopoly. It seems that we need a very different architecture for #digitalmarkets. Can competition law provide necessary solutions?

https://lnkd.in/g-2gTi3S In a landmark decision, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google has violated US antitrust laws by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets. This is a significant victory for the Department of Justice, underscoring Google's dominance in "general search services" and "general search text advertising." While the ruling marks an essential step towards fostering competition and innovation, the future implications for Google's business practices are still to be determined. Potential outcomes range from mandated changes in their business practices to a possible breakup of their search operations. Google plans to appeal, but this decision sets a critical precedent for other tech giants facing similar scrutiny, including Amazon, Apple, and Meta. Bring on SearchGPT! Such a search engine could potentially offer more intelligent, personalized, and efficient search results by understanding and processing natural language queries more effectively than traditional search engines. #Antitrust #TechNews #Innovation #Competition

Busy day in the tech sector. The @Google ruling was not surprising but was shocking nonetheless if that’s even possible. I think we all knew this would be the outcome if the U.S. Department of Justice did its job correctly and put forward a thorough and highly researched arguement which it appears to have done. Will Google really appeal as they claim they will? Perhaps, but it’s unlikely that they will get a different outcome. What an appeal could do is to delay the final outcome until such time that a more business friendly administration is in power who’s current leader might be more receptive to “incentives” to weigh in on matters. Right now, Google is trying to handicap the outcome of the Nov. 5 election. To me, I think Google should accept the verdict, pay their tab, no matter how many zeros there are in it and focus on the two existential threats they are facing: 1) Search will no longer be dominated by Google, not because of the court decision today but because #AI, in its many guises, is going to bring in many competitors. 2) Google is slowly losing the trust of the advertising community. Adding a losing war with the #DOJ is a bridge too far for Google at this time given the other threats they are facing. Money they have, it’s an enduring business model that they need. #justice #integrity #accountability #trust https://lnkd.in/eYACiu7T

🔥 Google Antitrust Ruling: An imminent shake-up to the search and mobile market or a longer-term shift towards data transparency and monopolistic competition?   The 27th of September marks Google's 26th Birthday.   📊 Over that time, it has built up the world's largest datasets and entrenched itself as the default option, making it the go-to search engine for most consumers.   However, could the ramifications of the antitrust case shift the competitive landscape? What does this mean for the industry?   ⚖️ The reality is that these cases typically take years, especially as Google appeals.   There is a lot to consider.   📱 **Apple, Mobile, and More** - Google pays Apple $20 billion annually for default search status on iPhones. - However, recently, Apple has been campaigning for a shift to Safari as the default browser, playing its privacy card. It has a massive piece of the mobile market. - Will Apple pull the trigger on its AI search engine and relationship with OpenAI? How will SearchGPT play into this?   🔍 **Search Competition and Defensible Moats** - New entrants like Perplexity and Search GPT are offering up alternatives and have been making slivers of impact in the market. - Growth could accelerate if they pair speed, ease of use, and add privacy protection. - At the same time, ad-focused marketers may need to rethink their strategies.   🌐 **The Bigger Picture: Data, Transparency, and Distribution Deals** - Over the last year, brands and marketers have been vocal about wanting more transparency on data. - This includes how it is collected and used and whether user information is really private. - The introduction of LLMs and black box systems has heightened the debate. - Beyond antitrust cases, OpenAI and Perplexity have ongoing copyright actions with publishers. - Distribution deals will be under scrutiny, and new models will be needed.   🚀 **The Speed Race for the Best User Experience** - Platform experiences capabilities are what make users stay. Something Google was quick to point out. - Going forward, whoever provides the best (and fastest) user experience wins. - The future will present users with more ways to search and choices regarding what platforms they use.   🔮 **What will be the long-term implications?** Do you remember the legal case of the US versus Microsoft? - Although Microsoft technically lost the case, in reality, Netscape faded away, and Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade. - Essentially, Microsoft emerged as the de facto victor.   For now, Google is the default. The question in my mind how YouTube plays in all this...that's one of the premium data sets for multi-modal AI. There's been a lot of controversy around OpenAI using YouTube to train....does this antitrust case change that?   💭 Thoughts?   #Google #Apple #Data #Privacy #SearchGTP #Perplexity https://lnkd.in/gQGrh3a9

Google has a monopoly. Not just another lawsuit. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” the ruling states. Perhaps not surprising as 'to google' has become a verb. But Google search has been been an exceptional product since...well, for ever, in internet terms. Unfortunate timing for Google, as they currently face competition from AI (such as SearchGPT) and a >15% share price drop in the last month. The remedy is not yet known, but breaking up the company into its constituent parts seems unlikely - how do you deal with Android and Gmail which are essentially funded by ads on Google search? In the second quarter of 2024, Google's revenue exceeded an eye-watering $84.2 billion, an increase from the $74.3 billion recorded in the same quarter of the previous year. Link below is for The Guardian - a go-to for objective tech reporting and free to access (although they appreciate contributions). But there are many other sources online...just google them. #google #monopoly #bigtech

As the #DOJ comes after #Google in a massive #antitrust suit, the fallout might be far more than the pleadings and scope of the suit bargained for. In addition to addressing what it alleges is Google's unfair market dominance as a search engine, the DOJ's first remedy proposals also seek to gut Google of its developing #AI prominence if possible in a way Google charges is "radical" and "go[es] far beyond the specific legal issues in this case."   As this drags on in the public square, the technology world is taking note of concerning DOJ strategies and perspectives.   https://lnkd.in/g-zUw3DY