Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI
Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI Filed under Opinion on 5 Aug 2026 DuckDuckGo Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Google is asking the appeals court to throw that decision out, while the U.S. Department of Justice is asking for stronger remedies.
- ▪Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI Filed under Opinion on 5 Aug 2026 DuckDuckGo Amicus Brief in U.S. v.
- ▪Google is asking the appeals court to throw that decision out, while the U.S.
- ▪Department of Justice is asking for stronger remedies.
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| Original publisher | Spread Privacy |
| Canonical URL | https://spreadprivacy.com/google-appeal-amicus/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:06:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-06T16:10:41.703Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-06T16:10:41.703Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI Filed under Opinion on 5 Aug 2026 DuckDuckGo Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Google Appeal (4 August 2026)DuckDuckGo has a unique perspective on the anticompetitive effects that Google’s exclusive defaults.DDG Amicus Brief (as-filed) (002).pdf350 KB.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}download-circleThis week, DuckDuckGo is filing an amicus brief in the appeal of a federal court decision that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly in the general search market in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Google is asking the appeals court to throw that decision out, while the U.S. Department of Justice is asking for stronger remedies.
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