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 Google has an illegal monopoly in online advertising, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said today. Google is guilty of "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in the publisher ad server market that websites use for ads and the open-web display ad exchange market that matches advertisers with websites.
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The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
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Now, Google's search and advertising businesses both face uncertain futures.
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A federal judge has ruled that Google is a monopolist in online advertising. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said the company broke the law to maintain its ad tech dominance.
"In addition to depriving rivals of the ability to compete, this exclusionary conduct substantially harmed Google's publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web," the judge said.
The case stemmed from a January 2023 lawsuit from the US Justice Department and eight states. They accused Google of illegally monopolizing the ad market and using that power to charge more and take a higher portion of sales.
"Competition in the ad tech space is broken, for reasons that were neither accidental nor inevitable," the government said in its complaint. "One industry behemoth, Google, has corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers, advertisers, and brokers, to facilitate digital advertising."
The government says Google holds an 87 percent market share in ad-selling tech.
The judge also dismissed a portion of the government's case. "We won half of this case, and we will appeal the other half," Lee-Anne Mulholland, Googl
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The Trump administration is continuing an aggressive effort to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies. Here's what to know.
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Chromebooks are generally less expensive than Windows laptops and they're largely virus free. Heck, with cloud gaming, you can even play the hottest titles on some of them. The only problem? Typing "Chromebook" into a search bar opens the floodgates to countless choices. To simplify things, we've put together a list of Chromebooks PCWorld has personally tested and reviewed.
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Lenovo Flex 5i - Best overall Chromebook
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NEW RESOURCES Ordnance Survey (UK): Minecraft gamers to experience new detailed world of Great Britain. "This blocky version of Britain - accurately based on OS's cartography - features motorways and roads, vegetation, […]
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