Google Ad Tech Under Fire: What the DOJ Wants a Judge to Do

How the Trump DOJ Is Holding Google Accountable

The DOJ proposes forcing Google to sell its ad exchange and open-source its auction system to break up the company's monopolistic control over digital advertising.

Can Google be trusted without a break up?

On day three of the two-week remedies trial in the Justice Department's ad tech case against Google, Judge Leonie Brinkema boiled down the argument to one key issue: trust. Brinkema interrupted testimony from a DOJ expert with a hypothetical: should she issue a strict order modifying Google's behavior, could it resolve the issues at hand if "you had confidence that Google would actually act in complete good faith?" The question felt particularly…

Google Ad Tech Under Fire: What the DOJ Wants a Judge to Do

For the past four days, the Justice Department has sought to persuade a federal judge in Virginia to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off part of the company and change the way it does business to improve competition for online display advertising.

Ad tech trial turns to divestiture timelines

Key parts of Google’s illegal ad tech monopoly could be terminated in less than two years, two witnesses testifying on behalf of the Department of Justice have said. 

DOJ Is Trying to Break Up Google AGAIN

Speaking of big government, the Feds just won’t leave Google alone. The latest harassment comes from the DOJ which lost in court its last clash with the world’s search engine leader (which, as a reminder, is FREE) but is now back in court pushing for a judge to order Google to divest its advertising platform. The Justice Department has asked [Judge] Brinkema to order Google to divest the advertising exchange, known as AdX, that connects buyers a…