Is Google a monopoly? The trial in the United States that could define him

2024-05-05 01:39:59

Today Friday May 3 It’s the last day of judgment in between United States and Googlewho they define as a monopoly, but it is? These were the allegations of both parties.

Since 2020, it had been pointed out that the Department of Justice as well as prosecutors of The United States would sue Google because it is a monopolyafter a 16-month investigation that led them to this conclusion.

The trial between USA and the internet search engine, started in September 2023, however, today Friday May 3 the final arguments were given, so it will depend on the judge to define whether Google is a monopoly.

The United States alleges in court that Google is a monopoly

Today Friday May 3 It was the last day of trial between the United States and Googlewhere the lawyer for the Department of Justice accused the search engine of pay millions of dollars to companies to keep your monopoly.

According to public documents of the trial between the United States and Googlemillions of dollars have been paid annually to various distributors of both browsers and devices, including Apple.

They charge that research shows that Google paid more than $20 billion to Apple to make it the default search engine in Safari and eliminate the competition, a term on which much of the judgment.

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Another argument of USA (a demand joined by 35 of its states) is that since 1998, Google also has an advertising monopoly in addition to exclusivity agreements with several device manufacturers.

Although they have been in judgmentthere have been few documents that have been released about the lawsuit filed United States against Google for being a monopolyfor your consideration.

However, the presiding judge, Amit P. Mehta, declared the importance and significance of the United States trial against the search engine, although he did not define when he will issue the sentence, in which he will indicate if Google is a monopoly o no.

Google would have paid millions to Apple: United States | Reference image (Unsplash)

Google refutes the United States on the last day of trial: We are only the best

In his defense, the internet search engine’s lawyer, John Schmidtlein, argued that It’s not that Google is a monopolybut they have the best product, so it hurts the competition.

Given the accusation by the Department of Justice of United States on monopoly of advertising, which is the money that would give power to Googlethe lawyer defended that said income has decreased due to other platforms.

Equally, Google He stated that users could “easily” switch to other search engines if they wanted, however, Diario de Sevilla pointed out that this process usually involves several steps and has to do with the initial configuration of the devices.

According to the analysis of Similarweb (Israeli software development company), Google dominates 91% of the global search engine market and has a total of 85.5 billion quarterly visits, eighty times more than Bing.

Google monopolizes 91% of the search engine market worldwide (Unsplash)

2024-05-05 01:39:59