The tech giant Google influences everyone's lives. It owns one of the two largest operating systems for mobile phones and tablets – Android, runs one of the most important operating systems for smartwatches – Wear OS, and has one of the most popular search engines – Chrome. When you add in the artificial intelligence Gemini and other applications, it is probably impossible to exist without Google. And the management of the Mountain View giant is well aware of this. Nevertheless, it is now facing another lawsuit.
It's barely been a few days since the trial failed to break Google's monopoly and decided that he could keepchat Android and Chrome. But at the same time, it prohibited the conclusion of exclusive agreements and cannot force its applications on mobile phone manufacturers under threat. However, it can pay them to put them on mobile phones directly. But now Google Another trial is imminent. Or rather, a continuation of the trial that began in 2023.
At that time it was about Google's monopoly on advertising and Google lost the dispute. In about 14 days, corrective measures are to be addressed, according to which Google should have been banned from prioritizing its own tools, should sell its ad exchange AdX and should stop discriminating against individual offers. Plus it has publish open-source code, which governs its advertising auctions to prevent them from being manipulated.
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But American miniThe Justice Department has a completely different idea than Google about the measures that are supposed to create a free internet. While miniThe government published a 60-page document to end the dispute, while Google countered with its own 25-page document. It included, among other things, claims that the open web is in rapid declineAs for ads, Google defends itself by saying that since the advent of AI, the web has "new, enormously popular publishers like AI chat"boots".
However, if Google loses, it faces major sanctions and the breaking of its advertising monopoly. And at the same time, there is also removal of unjustified profit in the amount of 50%, retroactively from April 17, 2025.
