Week 4: Google Antitrust Probe

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 48 U.S. states launch antitrust investigation into Google

Attorney Generals from 48 States are investigating rumors about Google violating the antitrust law.  The antitrust law is the law against monopolies.  The investigations are about if Google is too dominant in online advertising.  They are seeing if the way they got this dominant was done in an illegal way.  Googles parent company, Alphabet, currently has a market value of about $820 billion, this is because of how many aspects of the internet Google has control over.  

Nine out of ten online searches are done using Google.  The Arkansas Attorney 

General states, "When my daughter is sick and I search online for advice or doctors, I want the best ones — the best advice or the best doctors — not the ones who spent the most on advertising,"  Google purchased a company called DoubleClick which is an advertising company specifically for making ads easy to click on. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-antitrust-probe-48-u-s-states-launch-antitrust-investigation-of-google-dominance-in-search-ads-and-data/