, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.
“One monopoly is bad enough. But a trifecta of monopolies is what we have here,” Justice Department lawyer Julia Tarver Wood said during her opening statement. According to Google's annual reports, revenue has actually declined in recent years for Google Networks, the division of the Mountain View, California-based tech giant that includes such services as AdSense and Google Ad Manager that are at the heart of the case, from $31.7 billion in 2021 to $31.3 billion in 2023.
, maintained in part by tens of billions of dollars Google pays each year to companies like Apple to lock in Google as the default search engine presented to consumers when they buy iPhones and other gadgets.case brought by a private gaming company. In the Virginia trial, the government's witnesses are expected to include executives from newspaper publishers including The New York Times Co. and online news sites that the government contends have faced particular harm from Google's practices.