Google remedies are in, so what's next for the open web?

#340: The details of how the DoJ wants Google search, Chrome, and AI broken up, putting publishing in the running for a US$159 billion windfall...

Goodness me, this has been a labour of love.

It’s 631 days since my first newsletter reporting on the Department of Justice’s landmark antitrust case that would go on to expose Google as an illegal monopolist.

I’ve written more than a million words, across 340 posts, and painstakingly read 1,485,173 words of evidence filed by Google and the DoJ with the court.

My newsletters have been read half a million times, by execs and decision makers from more than 1,500 publishers and tech companies, including hundreds at Google.

Readers have flocked in from all 50 US states and 79 countries as far afield as Pakistan, Iran, Uganda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guyana.

I’ve flown half a million kilometres, spoken on global stages, addressed the UN, and supported think tanks and industry groups representing ~15,000 publishers.

Now the trial is done. Almost.

All that remains is for Judge Amit Mehta to reveal in six weeks or so how he wants to dismantle Google’s corrupted network and retur…