Pivot's karaswisher and profgalloway discuss whether the anti-trust investigation of Google is a doomed enterprise
Photo: Getty Images According to multiple reports last week, the Department of Justice, as well as multiple state attorneys general, is considering bringing antitrust charges against Google as soon as this summer — close to a year after a regulatory probe was first announced last June. Cases from both authorities would address Google’s grip on the online-advertising market: Right now, the company pulls in around a third of every dollar spent on internet advertising.
Swisher: But that didn’t actually result in anything, right? If you ever want to go see a really terrible deposition, go look at Bill Gates’s in this trial. Netscape was involved, people from AOL were involved — all kinds of people. But in the end, all it did was slow Microsoft down. Subscribe on: Apple Podcast Google Podcast Spotify Galloway: I think if you were to really try and tackle this, you’re right, you need to understand the ecosystem. A lot of this just comes down to resources. The DOJ and the FTC decided to divide and conquer. They kind of split up the floor and said, “All right, you take these guys, we’ll take these guys,” because it’s a resource issue.
What’s difficult to gauge is how many resources Bill Barr has committed to this. And with the Trump administration, there’s always the question of “What else is going on here?” Bill Barr is so tainted right now from a political point of view, it’s hard to imagine there won’t be some attacks in that direction towards him. And deservedly.
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