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Aug 2024
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Is Google’s internet dominance set to en...

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When you go to look something up on the internet, more often than not you’re Googling. 

The search engine’s ubiquity has earned Google billions and billions of dollars, but now a US judge has ruled that Google became a monopoly illegally. 

How you search the internet might change as a result, with the forced break-up of the firm one of the options on the table to ensure more competition in the market. 

So, how did Google rise to the top and stay there? 

Today, we dissect the biggest tech competition ruling in decades with Leah Nylen, Bloomberg’s anti-trust reporter. 

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Leah Nylen, Bloomberg anti-trust reporter

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