Google Is Called Monopolist by US Court, Alleging Its Violation of Competition Law

Google was declared a monopolist on August 5, 2024 by the US Court for the District of Columbia (DC), indicating that it holds a dominating position in the market for "general search services" and has sustained market dominance. The law governing competition is broken by this.
The DC Court may request Google to become search neutral and mandate that it disclose its search results as a remedy. However, it does not appear that this ruling would herald a more stringent Federal Search Commission or even an improved search process.

Google and its competitors Apple and Amazon, who are all dealing with significant legal issues of their own, will not be impacted by fines.
When a business can hire every competition law firm worldwide and is as wealthy as Croesus  to appeal decisions, that will not worry the boardrooms.

Their concern is that they will have to integrate their systems with those of their smaller, more creative, more cybersecure competitors.

Customers will be scared into complying when they can send messages from their iPhone to any platform, not just iMessage, similar to how they can with email or SMS messages.

Interoperability is being pursued by the US Department of Justice as a remedy in the lawsuit against Google, and perhaps for Apple and Amazon as well. Although it isn't a panacea, this is the most pro-competitive stance available short of dismantling these vertically integrated platforms.

Though Microsoft remains the most profitable of all the software titans, American law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig campaigned for its dissolution in the 1990s. Rather, despite record fines, authorities in the US and the EU forced some interoperability, but they messed up the technicalities, limiting advantages to consumers.

In 2024, there is less desire to dismantle the goliaths, but some are pushing for interoperability, which authorities are much more aware of than they were in the 1990s.

Interoperability has been mandated for such platforms by the EU since 2023, but the Digital Markets Act 2022 has only just gone into effect and is still having teething problems in the EU unit in charge of enforcement.