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Google\u2019s payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing a key victory to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

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Judge Amit Mehta in Washington said that the Alphabet Inc. unit\u2019s $26 billion in payments<\/a> effectively blocked any other competitor from succeeding in the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Antitrust enforcers alleged that Google has illegally maintained a monopoly over online search and related advertising. The government said that Google has paid Apple<\/a> Inc., Samsung<\/a> Electronics Co. and others billions over decades for prime placement on smartphones and web browsers. This default position has allowed Google to build up the most-used search engine in the world, and fueled more than $300 billion in annual revenue largely generated by search ads.<\/p>\n

The case is the first antitrust trial pitting the federal government against a US technology company in more than two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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