{"id":759,"date":"2026-05-23T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:03:47","slug":"google-search-monopoly-ruling-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business \u2018fair and square\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/8\/5\/24155520\/judge-rules-on-us-doj-v-google-antitrust-search-suit\">deeming it an illegal search monopolist<\/a>, arguing the decision \u201ccrashed\u201d through legal guardrails. \u201cGoogle just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square,\u201d it writes in its legal filing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/863710\/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-appeal\">said it would appeal the ruling<\/a>, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its illegal monopolization and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/717087\/google-search-remedies-ruling-chrome\">the September 2025<\/a> remedies decision that ordered it to share some search data with competitors. The appeal brief filed Friday gives more insight into how the company plans to fight Judge Amit Mehta\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe are asking the court to overturn this flawed decision \u2013 partners and users have many options and choose Google because it provides the best, most helpful results,\u201d Google VP of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote qnnwq0\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup qnnwq2 _1xwtict9\">\u201cGoogle just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google argues that Mehta erred in finding that its search distribution agreements with browser and device makers were anticompetitive. Instead, it argues, other market players simply preferred its services over rivals\u2019. Mehta also \u201cegregiously exceeded\u201d his judicial discretion in the remedies he ordered, according to Google, which included the \u201cextraordinary step of ordering Google to boost its competitors through data-transfer and syndication.\u201d The company also takes issue with how the remedies require data sharing with generative AI players that it says \u201ccould not have been affected by Google\u2019s conduct because they <em>did not even exist <\/em>during the relevant period, and that are already succeeding as wildly as any technology in human history without any need to free-ride on Google\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The US and a coalition of states that sued alongside it are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/873438\/google-antitrust-case-doj-states-appeal\">also appealing the same decision<\/a>, arguing that Mehta should have gone further in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/717087\/google-search-remedies-ruling-chrome\">remedies decision<\/a>. Mehta declined to grant the government its biggest asks, including a sale of Google\u2019s Chrome browser, which it argues is a key distribution platform for search offerings. The government argued that a broad sweep of changes was necessary to resolve Google\u2019s harms to competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">About five years since the initial case was filed, it\u2019s now up to a federal appeals court in DC to determine what should happen next. From there, the case could eventually go all the way up to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/936175\/google-search-monopoly-ruling-appeal\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision \u201ccrashed\u201d through legal guardrails. \u201cGoogle just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square,\u201d it writes in its legal filing. Google had already said it would appeal the ruling, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[248,32,74,34],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-antitrust","tag-google","tag-policy","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business \u2018fair and square\u2019 - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google filed its appeal of a ruling finding it has an illegal monopoly in online search, arguing it competes on the merits.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=759\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business \u2018fair and square\u2019 - 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