Google was convicted.

"Following an investigation, the court concluded that Google is a monopoly and that it took these actions to maintain its dominant position," Judge Amit P. Mehta declared on August 5th.

The plaintiffs alleged that Google engaged in illegal activities to maintain its dominant position in the search industry, such as paying Samsung, Apple, and Mozilla billions of dollars annually for its search engine to be "illegally set as the default" globally.

According to court documents, Google controls approximately 90% of the overall online search market and 95% on smartphones. The company spent around $26.3 billion in 2021 alone to secure its position as the default search engine across multiple platforms, thereby maintaining its market share.

One of the companies that receives the most money from Google is Apple. According to court documents released earlier this year, Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple, stated that Google spent $20 billion on the company in 2022, equivalent to 17.5% of the iPhone maker's operating income.

In this way, Google easily dominates the search field and benefits greatly in both revenue and data collection.

"Google receives billions of queries every day through those default access points. They collect massive amounts of user data from such searches and use it to improve query quality," the federal judge said.

With the conviction, Google will be required to change its operating methods or even sell off some of its business units.

For its part, a Google representative responded to the court's ruling, stating that they "appreciate the court's decision that Google is the top-quality search engine," and also confirmed that the company plans to appeal.