Google loses ad tech monopoly trial, faces additional breakups - Ars Technica

[rcjordan]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04%2Fgoogle-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups%2F/

[Brad]

Finally some good news.

[ergophobe]

They send me emails all the time about how the evil California legislature is trying to limit their ability to provide good service to small businesses and hurting small business in the process.

Little do they know that every email they send me makes me lean less favorably toward Google and more favorably toward the legislature.

[Brad]

Well get your popcorn out because we have the remedy phase of both the search engine and the ad-tech trials coming.  And then all the phony Google drama of appeals to higher courts.

[rcjordan]

>appeals to higher courts

You forgot to mention political 'donations' made on their behalf by lobbyists.

[ergophobe]

Meanwhile...

Alphabet Reports 12% Increase in Revenue
Google's parent company, which is battling the government to stay intact after losing two antitrust cases, also said quarterly profit rose 46 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/google-alphabet-earnings.html