Monopoly Money
Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened. On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of dense legal text, Judge Amit Mehta
Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle , something incredible happened. On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of dense legal text , Judge Amit Mehta confirmed in excruciating detail the length and breadth of what all of us kind-of-sort-of-knew — that Google has a monopoly in search and online “general text advertising.” The ruling precisely explains how Google managed to limit competition and choice in the search and ad markets. D
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