Google's Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hated ads, believing that ads will be biased towards advertisers.

Judge Amit P. Mehta issued a 286 -page ruling, based on millions of documents, thousands of exhibits, and a nine-week trial, that Google violated antitrust law.

Larry Page was haunted by the story of Nikola Tesla , the brilliant inventor who died in obscurity.

The Google decision has been a long time coming, but it’s been coming for years .

The company was less than a decade old when it became clear that its primacy in search was going to make it an ongoing target to regulators and litigators.

This is far from the first time Google was investigated for antitrust violations.

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