The Google logo during the Made by Google event in Mountain View, California, in August 2024.
Mandatory Credit:	Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters/File via CNN Newsource

The Google logo during the Made by Google event in Mountain View, California, in August 2024.
Mandatory Credit: Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters/File via CNN Newsource

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Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules

Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website.