Archive - Google on Trial of Future Media

The fearless editor leading an $8 billion class action against Google

Exclusive: The action also targets Meta and is a forerunner for a multi-national suit worth hundreds of billions for publishers if successful...

Oct 27 •

Payback time for publishing as Google goes on parole

The US Government has revealed the penalties it wants, which could kill AI Overviews, reset copyright, and expose Google's innermost secrets...

Oct 10 •

September 2024

It's time to exit Google's toxic swamp now we know the truth

The ad antitrust trial is over. The lawyers are done, now a judge will decide the fate of digital advertising, but publishers and agencies needn't…

Sep 30 •

Google's witness factory prompts a DoJ blast

The antitrust trial drowned in Google Kool Aid yesterday as paid witnesses sought to paint it as a friend of everyday folk...

Sep 27 •

1:05

Pichai takes to TV as AI Overviews crashes into Oz

Google's decision to launch its AI publisher-killer means it no longer fears the Government and its publisher pay-offs have worked...

Sep 26 •

2:38

Google's trial hurtles towards an early end

Google's ad trial was listed for up to six weeks but may be over before half-time as the judge lambasts its witnesses as useless...

Sep 25 •

Step-by-step, how Google demolished publisher ads

The deadliest predators run silent and run deep, but every now and again, they pop above the surface and into the light of day...

Sep 24 •

The rocket docket judge cuts down Google's defence

The first defence witness is chastised as "highly questionable", potentially "tainted" and his evidence irrelevant...

Sep 21 •

Sky-high Google fees silenced our journalism - Mail

A siege of display ads left the market-leading publisher unable to cut ties without losing millions in ad revenue that funded its work...

Sep 19 •

Google burned millions to bury rising ad rival - court

DoJ alleges the search giant had a strategy of killer acquisitions, designed to buy, then shut down competitors which might hinder its domination...

Sep 18 •

Google's cash cow is headed to pasture, and that spells danger

AI Overviews now set to become publishing's next battleground as antitrust lawyers zero in on breaking Google's ad monopoly...

Sep 16 •

What if Google was just blown apart, judge asks

Bombshell in court as the antitrust judge asks witness how publishers would fare if "great, big, mega” Google just didn't exist...

Sep 13 •

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