Google ‘wilfully’ monopolised online advertising market, US judge rules

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The US Federal Judge has ruled that Google has obtained and maintained its monopoly into digital ads, the recent anti-monopoly defeat for the technological giant that could lead to its own business.

On Thursday, Judge Leon Brinkeman said in Virginia that Google was “arbitrarily” monopolized two parts of the digital advertising market.

However, Brinkeman found that the case was brought to the US Department of Justice, it was unable to prove that Google was unfairly dominated by the third component of the market, advertising networks.

The ruler after last year the Federal Judge in a separate anti-monopoly case has spent billions of dollars on exceptional transactions to maintain illegal monopolies.

The second stage of that trial in which the court will define the means that may include Google to sell parts of its business next week.

DOJ asked for Google to sell his chrome browser for Google, each year pays $ 20 billion to Apple – his default search engine.

Thursday, Brinkeman wrote:

“Google later invaded his monopoly force, imposing an anti-competitive policy on its customers and eliminating the desired properties of its products,” he added.

But he rejected the DOJ form that tried to set the third part of the market, saying that the term “advertiser’s advertising network” was rarely and “except[s]”Publishers:

Google said: “We won half of this case and turn to the other half. We do not agree with the court’s decision on our publisher tools.

The ruling last victory is for the former antitrust officials, who have been appointed Joe Biden, who brought and filed a lawsuit, returning to the White House.

Jonathan Cant, former head of the X’s anti-monopoly unit on Thursday. “Today is a huge victory for anti-monopoly tax, media industry and free and open internet.

An anti-monopoly officials appointed by Trump strongly affected that they intend to adopt a tough stance on execution, especially against big technologies. The US Federal Trade Commission began to fight its federation in a monopoly trial in Washington’s Federal Court on this week.

DOJ did not immediately respond to the comment request.