A federal judge dismissed a consumer antitrust lawsuit against Google. The suit accused Google of unlawfully monopolizing the search market through distribution deals with companies like Apple.
Filed as a class-action in the Northern District of California, the suit alleged these agreements prevented competitors with better privacy features from emerging.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin granted the dismissal, stating plaintiffs failed to provide evidence for their claims. The ruling found consumers did not show that more privacy-protective or ad-free search engines would have been available without Google's contested agreements.