October 27, 2023
Google paid over $26.3 billion for search distribution in 2021 and $18.5 billion in 2020, according to numbers a D.C. federal judge refused to redact Friday from the Justice Department case targeting the contracts that make Google the default search engine on every iPhone, Android smartphone and Firefox browser.
October 26, 2023
A Google senior vice president pushed back Thursday on U.S. Department of Justice arguments that the company has tremendous market power because it competes only narrowly, with one-stop shop search providers like Bing and DuckDuckGo, with the executive contending that on the contrary, Google competes constantly with vertical providers like Amazon.com and Hotels.com.
October 26, 2023
The judge overseeing the government's search monopolization case against Google set up a process for reporters requiring quicker access to evidence presented during the ongoing trial after a request from The New York Times and other media outlets.
October 25, 2023
An expert economist for a coalition of state attorneys general backed their D.C. federal court claims Wednesday that Google deliberately held off on search engine marketing tool improvements for Microsoft's Bing, testifying that creating parity on Google's tool for both search engines could cost it advertisers and revenue.
October 25, 2023
It's Google's turn in D.C. federal court to rebut the government's monopolization claims centered around the contracts that make its search engine the default on iPhones, Macs, Android devices and major web browsers.
October 24, 2023
State attorneys general challenging Google's search monopoly appeared Tuesday to wrest little value from a Google product manager to support their D.C. federal court claim that the company held off making key ad features from its search engine available for Microsoft's Bing.
October 19, 2023
A former executive for travel company Expedia told the judge overseeing the government's monopolization trial against Google in D.C. federal court on Thursday that there's no substitute for the traffic it gets from the tech giant's search engine.
October 18, 2023
A Google executive pushed back Wednesday on U.S. Department of Justice arguments that the search engine's user scale offers it a crucial, and essentially insurmountable, advantage over rivals, testifying in the D.C. federal court monopolization trial that user data is just one, increasingly less important, part of the quality puzzle.
October 17, 2023
The Justice Department's lead economics expert for its monopolization case over the contracts making Google the default search engine on every iPhone, Mac, Android device and Firefox browser defended his analysis Tuesday, arguing that while Google wins those contracts partly on its quality, that's not the only reason.
October 16, 2023
The D.C. federal judge weighing the fate of the contracts that make Google the default search engine on every iPhone, Mac, Android device and Firefox browser pushed back Monday on U.S. Department of Justice assertions that leveling the playfield would enable rivals to pick up more users.