{"id":986206,"date":"2026-01-19T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986206"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:49:37","slug":"google-files-to-appeal-decision-in-search-monopoly-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/google-files-to-appeal-decision-in-search-monopoly-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Google files to appeal decision in search monopoly case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google filed a notice on Friday to appeal a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that it held an illegal monopoly on online search, court records show. <\/p>\n<p>A US district judge decided in 2024 that the internet giant had a monopoly on search and text advertising through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the &#8220;default&#8221; option people were likely to use. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Google said the ruling &#8220;ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they&#8217;re forced to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google filed a notice on Friday to appeal a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that it held an illegal monopoly on online search, court records show. A US district judge decided in 2024 that the internet giant had a monopoly on search and text advertising through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the &#8220;default&#8221; option people were likely to use. On Friday, Google said the ruling &#8220;ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they&#8217;re forced to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}