{"id":16513,"date":"2020-09-18T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:37:26","slug":"doj-prepares-antitrust-charges-google-possibly-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/doj-prepares-antitrust-charges-google-possibly-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ prepares antitrust charges against Google, possibly this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of investigations, the Department of Justice is preparing antitrust charges against Google. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/03\/us\/politics\/google-antitrust-justice-department.html?smid=tw-share\">Signs indicate<\/a> the case may be brought to the company as soon as the end of this month. The most indicative of which is Attorney General William Barr\u2019s dismissal of the career lawyers. They had previously requested more time to build their case.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has told lawyers conducting the antitrust inquiry into Alphabet Inc. to complete their work by the end of September. Alphabet is Google and YouTube\u2019s parent company, which exercises a wide control over online search engines, video, and advertising markets.<\/p>\n<p>A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary panel has raised major concerns regarding the company\u2019s ability to exploit and monopolize the market to fuel their own business ventures. Subsequently, the DOJ is asking Google about how it utilizes a mixture of strategies to entice advertisers and online publishers, such as bundling offers, giving discounts, or creating restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Other critics have pointed out how Google deploys software to manage each step of online advertising, playing both sides of the market. \u201cIn no other market does the party represent the seller, the buyer, makes the rules, and conduct the auction,\u201d said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, in this week\u2019s hearing. He also called Google\u2019s monopolizing position \u201cindefensible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s president of global partnerships and corporate development, Don Harrison, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/senators-call-google-monopoly-upon-213305815.html\">responded<\/a> to these allegations by pointing out that while the company <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/knowledge-panels-are-the-equivalent-of-google-gold\/\">leads in general online searches<\/a>, consumers are more likely to turn to Amazon for product and commercial queries.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/03\/us\/politics\/google-antitrust-justice-department.html?smid=tw-share\">currently<\/a> controls roughly 90% of online searches globally, aided by the fact that it\u2019s become the default browser on phones through its Android operating system. About one-third of every dollar spent on online advertising also finds its way into Google\u2019s hands. It\u2019s likely we\u2019ll see more movement in this massive case heading into the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MARKETING) The Department of Justice indicates that it may soon be bringing forth its antitrust charges against Google and alleged monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337710,"featured_media":16514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2014,525,423,1234],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-marketing","tag-antitrust","tag-google","tag-lawsuit","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/DinoGoogle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16521,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions\/16521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}