It's Thursday September 14 and google (alphabet corp, LLC) is in trouble again.  I hope they actually make some harsh rulings and make google open up the adtech web search and web advertising monopoly and hierarchical centralized mafia that controls (google Dapps and android / chrome / googAdwords) the web as we know it.  as a web developer I'm very enthusiastic about this news, however I'm skeptical if this government will actually do more than a slap on the hand or a fine.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG?p= … c=fin-srch

"By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Justice Department pressed its argument on Thursday that Google sought to strike agreements with mobile carriers to win powerful default positions on smartphones to dominate search in an antitrust trial that could change the future of the internet.

The government wrapped up questioning of Antonio Rangel, who teaches behavioral biology at the California Institute of Technology on Thursday morning. Rangel discussed how consumers were likely to stick with browsers on computers and mobile phones that were pre-installed as the default application.

The government says the Alphabet unit paid $10 billion annually to wireless companies like AT&T, device makers like Apple and browser makers like Mozilla to be the default search engine on devices to fend off rivals and keep its search engine market share near 90%.

John Schmidtlein, a lawyer for Google, during cross-examination of Rangel, pointed out that a significant number of user search queries went to Google even when another search engine was the default.

A major part of Google's defense is that the government is wrong to say that Google broke the law to hold onto its massive market share because its search engine is wildly popular because of its quality..."

lol

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-us-all … 49596.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/2 … e-00079229

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pressco … ip_23_3207

"The European Commission has informed Google of its preliminary view that the company breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech'). The Commission takes issue with Google favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers.

Google is a US multinational technology company. Google's flagship service is its search engine Google Search. Google also operates other popular services, such as the video streaming platform YouTube or the mobile operating system Android. Google's main source of revenue is online advertising: (i) it sells advertising space on its own websites and apps; and (ii) it intermediates between advertisers that want to place their ads online and publishers (i.e. third-party websites and apps) that can supply such space.

Advertisers and publishers rely on the adtech industry's digital tools for the placement of real time ads not linked to a search query, such as banner ads in websites of newspapers (‘display ads'). In particular, the adtech industry provides three digital tools: (i) publisher ad servers used by publishers to manage the advertising space on their websites and apps; (ii) ad buying tools used by advertisers to manage their automated advertising campaigns; and (iii) ad exchanges where publishers and advertisers meet in real time, typically via auctions, to buy and sell display adds."

any defense of google aka ALphabet Inc. will be interpreted as nepotism or a form of stockholm syndrome

https://www.reuters.com/legal/nine-more … 023-04-17/

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-set … %EF%BF%BC/

"“Today’s complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “No matter the industry and no matter the company, the Justice Department will vigorously enforce our antitrust laws to protect consumers, safeguard competition, and ensure economic fairness and opportunity for all.”"

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice- … chnologies