According to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice would have sued Google for "infringement of competition law to preserve its monopoly in the field of search and online advertising" on Tuesday, October 20.
The American court has been preparing a sufficiently solid case for a few months to initiate a lawsuit against Google. According to a Republican senator, this could be the most delusional abuse of this generation's dominance lawsuit.
For those who follow technological news closely, you are undoubtedly aware that the American courts have launched antitrust proceedings against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon to prevent them from further consolidating their domination.
It is undoubtedly with this intention that American justice worked hard for more than a year to constitute a solid case against the giant Google. The survey focuses in particular on two key areas of Google: the search engine and advertising revenue. The company is accused of resorting to and abusing techniques aimed at excluding its competitors.
For example, Google is the standard search engine on many devices and browsers, including its own (Chrome), and Android, its most popular mobile operating system globally. In this regard, the ministry criticizes it for pushing consumers and advertising agencies to use its services on Android devices with applications that cannot be erased, such as Google Maps, which seriously limits competition. That said, the lawsuits against Google are far from over.
Apart from this statement, seven other states have announced that they will complete their investigations shortly. In the event of a complaint, they warned that they would present a request to ally themselves with the Ministry of Justice. On the way to dismantling? The complaint launched in Washington aims for "structural" changes. Therefore, it suggests a possible dismantling of Google, because according to them: "If the government does not enforce antitrust laws to allow competition, we could miss the next wave of innovation. " For its part, Google described this complaint as "dubious" since people use Google voluntarily and not because they are forced to do so or because they cannot find other alternatives, d 'especially as its services are free and benefit the greatest number.
Google also points out that many well-known applications like Spotify, Amazon, or Facebook are not installed by default on smartphones despite their popularity. This antitrust case against Google is the largest antitrust case the United States has brought against an American technology company since the 1990s and the abuse of dominance lawsuit against Microsoft. The two sides reached an agreement in 2001. In addition to these cases, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are also under investigation by regulators and lawmakers.
However, the lawsuit brought this week mainly concerns Google's business contracts with outside partners. According to the first rumors, the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission could impose the dismantling of many activities of the Californian colossus.
As a reminder, the dismantling of GAFA does not date from yesterday and constitutes one of the solutions envisaged to fight against this "type of monopoly that we have not seen since the time of the oil barons and the tycoons of the road. iron", as noted in a 449-page document drafted by Democratic members of Congress.
The very juicy agreement between Apple and Google However, Google's biggest smartphone contract is with Apple. The iPhone maker receives between $ 8 billion and $ 12 billion a year in ad revenue for Google to be the default search engine on Apple devices. The complaint reveals that in 2018 Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook met to discuss how they could generate income.
Rumor has it that a Google employee wrote to an Apple employee after this meeting: "Our vision is that we work as if we were one company. " This agreement clearly benefits both
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