Google is one of the most dangerous corporations in the world.
Google knows more about us than most of our families, answering intimate questions from billions of us, every day, and controlling much of our communications to boot. It has 95% market share in search, annual revenue of a little less than $300 billion, and 15 products with more than 500 million users. We’ve perhaps never seen any corporate asset as powerful as Google search, with marketing professor Scott Galloway going so far as to say in 2017 that “Google is God.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is in week 4 of taking Google to court, and fighting to break its Search monopoly.
The most significant antitrust trial in decades, this trial is the first of several cases challenging Google’s monopoly power in 2023 and 2024. It takes direct aim at the illegal schemes Google uses to take control of key distribution challenges, and will make clear that Google’s unprecedented scale is an ongoing threat that makes the internet worse for everyone.
