Google’s huge market share doesn’t automatically make it a monopoly
Richard Holden examines whether Google can actually be considered a monopoly in this crossposting from The Conversation.
This week the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit accusing Google of using “anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets” for search and advertising.
It is the most significant antitrust case since the US government took on Microsoft in 1998 for using its dominant position as the provider of the Windows operating system to force PC makers to bundle its Internet Explorer web browser.
