The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,
This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,
A forced divestiture of the search business would sever Alphabet from its largest source of revenue. But even losing its capacity to strike exclusive default agreements could be detrimental for Google,
Google, of course, recognizes that losing defaults would dramatically impact its bottom line. For instance, Google has projected that losing the Safari default would result in a significant drop in queries and billions of dollars in lost revenues.”
The default is extremely valuable real estate,
Given this, and that people are increasingly looking for information in more and more ways, we plan to appeal
The biggest winner from today's ruling isn't consumers or little tech, it's Microsoft,
Sure, users can access Google's rivals by switching the default search access point or by downloading a rival search app or browser. But the market reality is that users rarely do so.”
The distribution agreements have caused a third key anticompetitive effect: They have reduced the incentive to invest and innovate in search. There is no genuine ‘competition for the contract.’ Google has no true competitor.”
This victory against Google is a historic win for the American people,
His decision is measured and not simply a credulous acceptance of the government’s arguments,
Google’s distribution agreements foreclose a substantial portion of the general search services market and impair rivals’ opportunities to compete,
As this process continues, we will remain focused on making products that people find helpful and easy to use,
The trial evidence firmly established that Google’s monopoly power, maintained by the exclusive distribution agreements, has enabled Google to increase text ads prices without any meaningful competitive constraint,
It does create some doubt in a company that already kind of disappointed on the quarter,
You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, and you search on Google,
Google’s loss in its search antitrust trial could be a huge deal — depending on the remedy,
The United States is drifting toward the anti-tech posture of the European Union, a part of the world that makes almost nothing and penalizes successful American companies for their popularity,
The default is extremely valuable real estate ... ... Even if a new entrant were positioned from a quality standpoint to bid for the default when an agreement expires, such a firm could compete only if it were prepared to pay partners upwards of billions of dollars in revenue share and make them whole for any revenue shortfalls resulting from the change,