Google's antitrust loss shows that regulators can successfully challenge U.S. tech companies; but while such rulings will impact companies' operations, they are unlikely to weaken the dominance of major firms or stop the tech sector from creating large, sprawling corporations. In a landmark Aug. 5 ruling, a U.S. federal judge ruled that Google violated the Sherman Act in protecting its monopoly in online search after a ten-week trial held last year. In his ruling, Judge Amit Mehta said that ''Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.'' Shortly after the ruling, Google announced that it would appeal. The ruling was closely watched as the Google online search case was the first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits filed by the two federal U.S. antitrust enforcement arms -- the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) -- against large...
