{"id":28728,"date":"2025-05-30T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28728"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:28:07","slug":"the-judges-data-dilemma-in-the-google-search-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28728","title":{"rendered":"The Judge\u2019s Data Dilemma in the Google Search Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data played a starring role in the government\u2019s successful antitrust suit<\/a> against Google accusing it of illegally protecting its monopoly in online search. Now, steps to force Google to unlock its data trove could figure prominently in a ruling on how to address the tech giant\u2019s dominance, antitrust experts say.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the federal judge overseeing the case, Amit P. Mehta, will hear closing arguments<\/a> in federal court in Washington on what corrective measures, known as remedies, he should order to restore competition. The government\u2019s requests include forcing Google to share its search engine results and advertising data with rivals.<\/p>\n

Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly described data as \u201cthe oxygen\u201d for search engines. And in his ruling against Google in August,<\/a> Judge Mehta recounted in detail how the company harvests vast amounts of data from user searches and web crawling, then stores and analyzes the data to rule the lucrative market for internet search.<\/p>\n

Google, he noted, collects nine times as much user search data every day as all its rivals combined. And as more data is fed into Google\u2019s software, the results that the search engine returns on everything from biology to bluejeans become more accurate and relevant to the person seeking information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Better search performance, in turn, attracts more users and more advertisers, Judge Mehta wrote. It\u2019s a flywheel that steadily enhances Google\u2019s search and acts as a barrier to competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt every stage in the search process,\u201d the judge wrote, \u201cuser data is a critical input that directly improves quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Data played a starring role in the government\u2019s successful antitrust suit against Google accusing it of illegally protecting its monopoly in online search. Now, steps to force Google to unlock its data trove could figure prominently in a ruling on how to address the tech giant\u2019s dominance, antitrust experts say.On Friday, the federal judge overseeing the case, Amit P. Mehta, will hear closing arguments in federal court in Washington on what corrective measures, known as remedies, he should order to restore competition. The government\u2019s requests include forcing Google to share its search engine results and advertising data with rivals.Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly described data as \u201cthe oxygen\u201d for search engines. And in his ruling against Google in August, Judge Mehta recounted in detail how the company harvests vast amounts of data from user searches and web crawling, then stores and analyzes the data to rule the lucrative market for internet search.Google, he noted, collects nine times as much user search data every day as all its rivals combined. And as more data is fed into Google\u2019s software, the results that the search engine returns on everything from biology to bluejeans become more accurate and relevant to the person seeking information.Better search performance, in turn, attracts more users and more advertisers, Judge Mehta wrote. It\u2019s a flywheel that steadily enhances Google\u2019s search and acts as a barrier to competition.\u201cAt every stage in the search process,\u201d the judge wrote, \u201cuser data is a critical input that directly improves quality.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28730,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28731,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions\/28731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}