Google guilty of illegal monopoly

A U.S. judge rules that Google spends billions of dollars a year to run an illegal monopoly on online searches, leading to its dominance in hugely profitable online advertising
 

SEARCH ENGINE MARKET SHARE (%) 
JUL 2024

Google 91.04

bing: 3.86 
YANDEX: 1.36 
Yahoo!: 1.24 
Baidu: 0.91 
DuckDuckGo: 0.62 
Others: 0.97


$26.3bn
2021 spending to maintain Google search engine dominance
  
$175bn
Google’s 2023 earnings from search-based advertising

  
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE AMIT MEHTA

Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly

Google has projected that losing the Safari [Apple] default would result in a significant drop in queries and billions of dollars in lost revenues
                                     

Sources: Reuters, Financial Times, StatCounter 
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