It's enraging how slow our legal system and regulators work when it comes to big tech companies.
Following the DOJ case against Google's ad and search business. The 80 year old judge presiding over the case accepted Google's $2 million dollar offer to "cover the damages" referenced in the DOJ brief. The judge ruled we won't need a jury trial.
Google brings in roughly $60 BILLION in revenue on search and ads every fiscal QUARTER.
We wouldn't have known what the damages were until we heard the DOJ's case. Sure. $2 million. That should cover it.
Now, major parts of Google's search code have been leaked on github, and it seems Google has been lying to users, ad customers, and to regulators, on how it organizes and ranks websites.
A handy video summing up the leak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mirCSvEnN0
But it's unlikely this new data will be stapled on to the current DOJ case, and it's unlikely this judge would understand this data anyway.
#tech #technews #news #business #google #law #doj
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