On Aug. 5, U.S. District Choose Amit P. Mehta dominated that Google violated antitrust legal guidelines to protect its monopoly in on-line search. Placing a positive level on it, the decide wrote in his resolution: "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to take care of its monopoly." This landmark ruling marks the primary main antitrust verdict in opposition to a tech large within the fashionable digital period. It is the suitable resolution, and lengthy overdue. It is also poised to reshape the tech trade for the higher.