{"id":1991127,"date":"2023-08-04T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-that-google-search-results-dont-harm-competitors-in-antitrust-suit\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:28:20","slug":"judge-rules-that-google-search-results-dont-harm-competitors-in-antitrust-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-that-google-search-results-dont-harm-competitors-in-antitrust-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge finds Google search results do not harm rivals in antitrust case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-that-google-search-results-dont-harm-competitors-in-antitrust-suit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Win \u2064for Google in Legal Battle Over Antitrust Accusations<\/h2>\n<p>A federal judge has ruled in favor\u200c of Google, stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-that-google-search-results-dont-harm-competitors-in-antitrust-suit\/\" title=\"Judge finds Google search results do not harm rivals in antitrust case.\">state attorneys general failed<\/a> to\u200b provide\u200b sufficient evidence to prove that Google&#8217;s dominance in search has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-claimed-she-poisoned-her-rapist-with-hemlock-a-police-investigation-determined-she-lied\/\" title=\"She Claimed She Poisoned Her Rapist With Hemlock. A Police Investigation Determined She Lied.\">caused significant harm<\/a>\u200c to its competitors. This ruling is a significant victory for the search engine \u200bin its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ducks-emergency-appeal-in-tennessee-abortion-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Ducks Emergency Appeal in Tennessee Abortion Case\">ongoing legal battle<\/a> over antitrust violations.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Amit \u2064Mehta, in \u2063an \u200cunsealed ruling on\u200d Friday, stated that the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and 11\u2063 states lacked substantial evidence to support the claim that Google&#8217;s search practices harmed companies like Yelp and Expedia. As a result, the lawsuit will be scaled back significantly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Simply put, there \u2062is no record\u2063 evidence\u2062 of anticompetitive harm,&#8221; Mehta \u200dwrote, emphasizing that the states&#8217; case relied heavily on opinion and speculation rather than concrete evidence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Mehta did allow allegations to remain that Google \u2063made deals \u2062with companies like Samsung and Apple to set its search engine as the default option, \u200beffectively \u2063excluding competitors such as\u200b Microsoft&#8217;s Bing from the majority of marketplaces. These specific details will be addressed in a \u2063trial scheduled for September 12.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed by the Department of Justice\u200d and the states of\u200b Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, \u2064Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas in the District of\u2063 Columbia District Court in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this lawsuit, Google is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nine-states-and-d-c-still-have-mask-mandates-in-place\/\" title=\"Nine States and D.C. Still Have Mask Mandates in Place\">facing legal challenges<\/a> from the Department of\u200d Justice regarding allegations\u200b of online advertising dominance and a separate suit from newspaper publisher Gannett concerning its control of digital advertising.<\/p>\n<h3>Employment Growth\u200b Slowing, with 187,000 Jobs Added in July<\/h3>\n<p>On\u200d a different note, employment\u2062 growth appears to be slowing down, with only 187,000 jobs added in July. This data\u2063 suggests a potential slowdown in the job market, raising concerns about the overall economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">clicking \u200bhere<\/a> to read more from\u200b The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that Google&#8217;s search dominance has resulted in harm to competitors was &#8220;too speculative.&#8221; The ruling is a victory for Google in its ongoing antitrust case, as it dismisses the argument made by state attorneys general. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta&#8217;s decision was revealed on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}