Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit: What Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella said

Google acted illegally in order to maintain a monopoly in online search, a US judge said in a ruling- a landmark decision against the tech giant which is likely to fundamentally change the way the company works. Judge Amit Mehta said that Google abused a monopoly over the search business in a case in which the US Justice Department and states sued the company accusing it of illegally fortifying its dominance by paying other companies like Apple and Samsung, billions of dollars a year to use Google for search on smartphones and web browsers.

The ruling noted, “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” and is likely to influence other government antitrust lawsuits against Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook’s owner Meta. The last significant antitrust ruling against a tech company targeted Microsoft more than two decades ago.