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Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules | CNN Business
2025-04-29 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Google logo during the Made by Google event in Mountain View, California on August 13, 2024. New York CNN Google has illegally built monopoly power with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. The ruling that Google violated antitrust law marks the US governments second major court victory over Google in less than a year amid claims the company has illegally monopolized key parts of the internet ecosystem, including online search. And it is the third such decision since a federal jury in December 2023 found that Googles proprietary app store is also an illegal monopoly. Taken together, the trio of decisions highlights the breadth of trouble Google faces, raising the prospect of sweeping penalties that could reshape multiple aspects of its business, though ongoing and expected appeals will likely take year...
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