Week #4 Google Antitrust

48 U.S. States have launched an antitrust investigation against the company google. The purpose of this investigation is to assess whether google is overly dominant in the online advertising. Google has the most dominant search engine by far in today’s age. Google was started in 1998 and was launched by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to advertise the search engine. Essentially, the search engine has made the gigantic company it is today. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a market value of almost $820 billion dollars. Where ever you are on the internet, google most likely owns a huge chunk of what you are browsing through and using. The odds of google being able to track all of your personal information is highly likely due to this. They single handedly can record all of your information without you ever knowing. Since they are such a monstrous entity, they have the power to do so and not being noticed at all. This is why they must be checked in on frequently or else they might wind up doing some behind the scenes dirty work that can cause tons of issues for regular people.  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-antitrust-probe-48-u-s-states-launch-antitrust-investigation-of-google-dominance-in-search-ads-and-data/