According to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, the ministry will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google had illegally monopolized the search market, to take measures regarding artificial intelligence and the Android smartphone operating system.
Antitrust officials at the U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.
Federal judge Amit Mehta in the USA made an important decision in the field of internet technologies in August, ruling that Google created an “illegal monopoly” in internet search and search advertising.
In his decision, Judge Mehta said, “As a result of its detailed review of the witnesses and evidence, the court reached the following decision: Google is a monopoly and it acted to protect this monopoly. This violates Article 2 of the Sherman Act.” He used the following expressions:
“ANTITRUST” CASE AGAINST GOOGLE
In the statement made by the US Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was reported that an “antitrust” lawsuit was filed against Google in the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia with the attorneys general of the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia.
In the statement, which stated that the company monopolized many digital advertising technology products, it was claimed that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary and illegal methods to eliminate or seriously reduce any threats to its dominance in the industry.
In the statement, it was stated that in the last 15 years, Google has neutralized or eliminated its advertising technology competitors through acquisitions, and that the company used its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products and prevented the use of rival products.
In the statement, it was stated that Google strengthened its dominance in the sector and the content of the company’s anti-competitive behavior was also included.
The US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for monopolizing search and search advertising in 2020.
