If government regulators prevail against Google in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century, they are likely to trigger sweeping changes that will undermine the dominance of a search engine that defines the Internet for billions of people .
As the 10-week trial investigating Google’s business practices nears its halfway point, it’s still too early to tell whether U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta will side with the Justice Department and try to handcuff a of the world’s most dominant technology companies.
If Mehta rules that Google has had an illegal monopoly on search, the punishment could open up new avenues online for consumers and businesses to explore in search of information, entertainment and commerce.
“The judge may force Google to open the floodgates so that more startups and third-party competitors can put greater competitive pressure on Google, which will create higher quality online services,” said Luther Lowe, Yelp’s senior vice president of public policy. . The online business review site has been one of Google’s harshest critics as it spends more than a decade criticizing a strategy that favors its own services in search results.
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