Google makes history with fast antitrust losses

Silicon Valley technology giants have long considered antitrust into account as an irritating business cost. There will be surveys, deposits, deposits and even prosecution.

However, the courts move slowly, while technology rushes. Time is working to the advantage of businesses, while political winds change and presidential administrations change. This dynamic often opens the door to light colonies.

But the issues increased sharply for Google on Thursday, when a federal judge ruled that the company had acted illegally to build a monopoly in some of its online advertising technologies. In August, another federal judge noted that Google had engaged in anti -competitive behavior to protect its monopoly in online research.

Antitrust experts said two big antitrust victories for the government against a single company in such a short time did not seem to have any precedent.

“Two courts have reached similar conclusions on the product markets that go to the heart of Google’s activities,” said William Kovacic, professor of law at George Washington University and former president of the Federal Trade Commission. “It must be considered a real threat.”

Google’s decisions are part of a current antitrust case wave contesting the power of the largest technological companies. This week, the trial began in a prosecution of the FTC saying that META, formerly Facebook, cemented an illegal monopoly on social networks thanks to its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp.