Truth time for Google: USA insists on the need to dismember the company

In August last year an American judge ruled that Google incurred monopolistic practices in the territory of internet searches. And after that historical sentence, the United States Department of Justice now claims the fragmentation of the Internet giant to try to put your monopoly in the wheels in the field of searches in the network of networks. The American executive and the Mountain View company have seen the faces in court since Monday in a trial that is presumed absolutely decisive for Google’s future and in which the consequences of the monopoly dictated in August last year by magistrate Amit Mehta will be decided.

During the beginning of that trial, the United States Department of Justice was absolutely implacable with Google and claimed Judge Amit Mehta that his opinion punished the company led by Lasting Pichai for the repeated violation of competition rules in the area of ​​internet searches.

The US government demands from Google to make concessions and share some of the data of its almighty search engine with its competitors. The Department of Justice also asks the company to terminate the millionaire agreements under which Google pays generous sums of money to browsers such as Firefox and Safari so that its search engine is there the default search engine.

In the trial started Monday, not only Google and the United States Department of Justice will be uploaded, but also Representatives of direct rivals of the omnipresent company search engine such as Bing and Duckckgo.

Although it seems decisive for the future of Google, the trial initiated yesterday will probably only an intermediate step, because they could spend several years before a final decision is made. For now, the Mountain View company has already announced its intention to appeal the opinion of Judge Amit Mehta. Google must expect, however, the decision related to the consequences of that opinion before rebelling against what is currently settled there.

Google rebels against the accusations of the United States Department of Justice

The company is defending government accusations ensuring that Their demands would cause damage to consumers and also slowly decelerate innovation.

According to the company based in Mountain ViewGoogle’s fragmentation would cause the transfer of more users to other search engines that are, in their opinion, notably worse and less solid than his own. The opinion issued in August 2024 by Judge Amit Mehta does not estimate that Google has obtained its current monopoly in the field of searches illegally, but it does accuse the company of trying to protect that monopoly by protecting illegal practices.

The company also argues that an eventual fragmentation of its company would undermine the interests of the United States in the fierce battle with China for technological leadership.

Google also warns The company’s chrome browser splitteras demanded by the United States government, would have “extraordinary” consequences. And he ensures that such a requirement has nothing to do with the practices qualified as monopolistic by magistrate Amit Mehta in his historic sentence against Google.

The Mountain View company does not win for dislikes and last week it suffered another hard wands in court. A judge of the state of Virginia ruled that Google had raised the foundations of a monopoly in the field of online advertising relying on anti -competitive practices. After this opinion, a second trial will be held in which the consequences emanating from the sentence will be decided.

In December 2023 Google was also condemned in the United States for incurring monopolistic practices in its application store and the conviction forced the company to make changes in Play Store (such as opening this platform to third parties and authorizing there a means of payment other than its own).