Google’s antitrust ruling could change the internet

Google’s major defeat in a federal antitrust case “could change the way you search the Internet,” Google said USA today. Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled Monday that the tech giant “illegally monopolized online search and advertising” by paying hardware companies like Apple and Samsung to make its search engine the default option in Web browsers on phones and computers. These practices have contributed to more than 90% of the search market being allocated to Google. Now? “The court will have to decide whether Google should be broken up one way or another,” said one analyst.

“There will very likely be a solution that changes the way we search on our phones and on our devices,” Rebecca Allensworth of Vanderbilt Law School told me. PBS News Hour. It is possible that the judge would impose the ‘nuclear option’ to split Google into smaller pieces, the judge said BBCseparating the search sector from other products such as the Chrome browser and the Android smartphone line. But it’s “easier to imagine” that Internet users will simply see a “choice screen” asking whether they want to use Google or Bing search when they open a browser.