Google is ‘once, twice, three times a monopolist,’ says the Justice Department

What you need to know

• The U.S. advertising monopoly case against Google wrapped up this week, with both the DOJ and Google giving closing arguments.
• U.S. lawyers said that Google is “once, twice, three times a monopolist,” while Google’s lawyers claimed the DOJ proved “the exact opposite” of a monopoly.
• Next, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema will decide whether the case has merits.

Google is seemingly facing legal battles and antitrust challenges on all fronts. The company had to make sweeping changes to its services in the European Union as a result of the Digital Markets Act, and recently lost a case in the U.S. that ruled Google has a monopoly on search. Meanwhile, closing arguments wrapped up this week in another antitrust case concerning Google’s ad-tech business.

Google and the U.S. Department of Justice have two very different interpretations of how the trial went, the two sides made clear in closing arguments reported by The New York Times. The case began last year when the federal government and a number of states filed a lawsuit claiming that Google’s advertising business was a monopoly, deriving partially from its acquisition of Doubleclick, an advertising company, more than a decade ago.

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