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It’s basic knowledge for any person who knows about the workings of the Google search process. Google search will work the automated programs depending on crawling, indexing, and also over the database. It looks over hundreds of billions of web pages before projecting the data on the search index. Depending on the query, relevance and also depending on the person’s location and frequently browsing pages, the search data will show the result.
But now the latest statement from a US judge is shocking. A US judge has ruled on Google, stating that it violated the antitrust law. Google is a giant tech and taking over it in the market is not an easy bite. Now it has been blamed for the monopoly.
As mentioned on the Economic Times legal page, the US judge has stated that: ‘Google is a monopolist and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” wrote by US district judge Amit Mehta, Washington, DC. He says that Google is controlling 90 percent of the online search and 95 percent of mobile phones. Amid the allegations, the share of Alphabet fell by 5 percent on Monday, this might also be because of the recession fear In the market. Mehta stated that alone in 2021, Google paid $26.3 billion to make sure that the search engine has Google as the default search engine, to maintain dominance in the markets, which is a clear indication to maintain the monopoly in the market. People also allege that Google because of the monopoly charges hefty prices for advertisements. White House press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has responded over the issue and said Americans need fair news. They also stated that in the USA no matter how large the company is it is always under the law.
This case was filed in the Trump administration and went on before a judge last year from September to November.
In the last few years, the federal antitrust regulators also sued the Meta platform, Amazon.com, and Apple claiming that they are dominating the market and maintaining a monopoly. Even these cases were begun at the time of the Trump administration. Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat stated that it is a win for the American people, that is we can still believe that in our country antitrust enforcement is still alive. Whatever may be the allegation, the petitioners are fighting only for the monopoly market that is being maintained in search engines. As the monopoly will kill many small firms, which is not a fair environment. Judge Mehta has given a 277-page decision taking three months after the final arguments are presented. Americans are calling it a historic win for the American people.
