In a major blow to Google, a federal judge on Monday ruled that the tech giant maintained and abused a monopoly on web searches.
In a major blow to Google, a federal judge on Monday ruled that the tech giant violated antitrust laws by illegally maintaining a monopoly on web searches. The much-anticipated decision marks a significant victory for federal regulators trying to reign in the power of Big Tech and could send shockwaves through the tech world. Other firms, including Apple, Meta and Amazon, also face federal antitrust lawsuits.
The Mountain View-based subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. has increasingly cornered the market for web search. In 2009, 80% of U.S. web searches went through Google. By 2020, that figure was nearly 90%, according to the ruling. Almost 95% of mobile searches used Google. Google's next closest competitor — Microsoft's Bing — took up just 6% of web searches, the ruling said. This dominance of the search market caught the attention of antitrust regulators, and by 2020, the U.S.
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