Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Monopoly

The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions, such as DoubleClick, don’t harm competition,

Mulholland wrote

Google has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open-web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market, and has unlawfully tied its publisher ad server (DFP) and ad exchange (AdX) in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act,

What they're saying ... Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in a 115-page opinion

In addition to depriving rivals of the ability to compete, this exclusionary conduct substantially harmed Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web,

she wrote