Google, a division of Alphabet, announced on Saturday that it would appeal an antitrust ruling in which a federal court suggested less drastic measures to restore competition in internet searches than the 10-year plan recommended by antitrust authorities.
Google said in a post on X, opens new tab:
“We will wait for the Court’s opinion. And we still strongly believe the Court’s original decision was wrong and look forward to our eventual appeal.”
Closing arguments were held Friday at a trial before US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington over plans to remedy Google’s unlawful monopoly in online search and associated advertising.
A federal judge ruled in April that Google had unlawfully controlled two internet advertising technology markets.
The US Department of Justice has recommended that Google sell off at least its Google Ad Manager, which consists of the company’s ad exchange and publisher ad server.
In order to make Google the default search engine on new devices, the DOJ and a group of states want Google to stop paying Apple and other smartphone manufacturers billions of dollars and share search data.
Google’s search monopoly provides it an advantage in artificial intelligence products like Gemini, and vice versa, which worries antitrust authorities.
At the ruling of Google antitrust case, the lawyer of Google, John Schmidtlein stated that although generative AI is changing the way search appears, Google has allayed worries about AI competition by ceasing to enter into exclusive contracts with telecom providers and smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung Electronics, allowing them to install competing search and AI apps on new devices.
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