Google illegally monopolised search, but don't expect change any time soon
Google's Search may have been the best offering, but the company went out of its way to squash competition.
For most people, Google is the Internet. It's a verb that's used to describe searching for information online.
The problem is that Google used its massive marketshare and spent billions of dollars to keep its position as the Internet's default search engine. And according to ruling from a Federal US judge overnight, that's a violation of Antitrust law.
I'm not going to lie – this news is music to my ears. Google's position as the world's default search engine, with over 90% market share (according to SimilarWeb) has meant it has gone unchecked in its approach to rollout algorithmic updates that crush independent publishers like myself, while objectively worsening results.
