Why Google’s Monopoly Is Outlasting Rockefeller’s: John Authers

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Google, the search-engine startup that became the tech behemoth Alphabet Holdings, was founded on a clear principle: “Don’t be evil.” And yet the company was last year found guilty of running an illegal monopoly. It faced dismemberment at the hands of the US judicial system, a fate that once befell AT&T or John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. It’s worth quoting the operative paragraph from Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling in full:

Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. The court found that, ...