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

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A US federal judge has ruled that Google has illegally acquired and maintained in digital advertising, the last disbeliever for the technology giant, which can cause it to be forced to divide its business parts.

District Judge Leone Brinkema, who chaired the Virginia case, Thursday said that the Google digital advertising market had “intentionally” exclusively “exclusively”: online publishers used the technology used to sell advertising places and the biggest exchange on which the advertisements were bid by the business.

However, Brinkema has discovered that the US judiciary, which brought the case, has not been able to prove that the third element of the Google market, the advertiser, unjustly dominated the advertising network.

“For more than a decade, Google has combined its publisher advertising server and advertising exchange with contractual policy and technical integration, which enabled these two markets to establish and secure its exclusive energy in the market,” Brinkema wrote in her judgment.

“Google imposed anti -competitive principles on its customers and deleted its exclusive energy by deleting the desired product features,” he added.

Google said: “We have won half of this case and we will apply for the other half. We do not agree with the court’s decision on our publisher equipment. Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our advertising technology equipment is simple, affordable and effective.”

Donald Trump brought the case before returning to the White House and filed a case for former incredible officials appointed by Joe Biden the latest win.

Jonathan Cantar, a former chief of the DOJ’s antitrust unit, said in a post on Thursday: “Today is an incredible application, a huge victory for the media industry and the free and open internet.

A federal judge in a separate disbelief last year found that Google spent a few billion dollars on a monopoly agreement to maintain illegal exclusives in Google search. The second phase of the trial, where the court will determine the remedy, will begin next week.

The DOJ asked Google’s Chrome browser to sell the selling, every year, Apple stopped $ 20 billion from its default search engine and could share more data with rivals.

Unbelievable officials appointed by Trump strongly indicate that they have intended to take a strict stand against the Big Tech, especially against the Big Tech. This week, the US Federal Trade Commission began to suit Meta in the Washington Federal Court in exclusive trial.

The DOG did not immediately respond to any request for comment.

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