US judge finds Google illegally monopolised ad tech market | Courts News

The ruling could allow prosecutors to argue for a breakup of Google’s advertising products.

A United States judge has ruled that Alphabet’s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, dealing another blow to the tech titan in an antitrust case brought by the US government.

On Thursday, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema, in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Google unlawfully monopolised markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges, which sit…