“Okay, Google, what’s a monopoly?”

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

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The Department of Justice wants Google to break up its advertising business. The Wall Street Journal’s Keach Hagey explains how the DOJ’s antitrust suit could reshape the internet. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a very big deal.
0:03.0	It is.
0:04.0	The Department of Justice just filed a lawsuit calling for the breakup of Google, one of the
0:08.9	biggest companies on the planet.
0:10.8	It did.
0:11.8	It doesn't get any bigger than this.
0:12.8	Arguably.
0:13.8	We may all think Google is a search engine.
0:16.3	Google does not think that.
0:17.8	Google thinks it's an ad business, and in fact more than 80% of parent company Alphabet's
0:22.8	revenue comes from Google ads, more than $209 billion in 2021.
0:29.2	A challenge for the Department of Justice in this lawsuit, it claims that Google is
0:33.3	abusing many of us with anti-competitive behavior, but the source material seems a little
0:39.3	dry.
0:40.3	A publisher ads server that is such a clunky word, right?
0:42.5	What does that even mean?
0:43.5	It's really hard to get excited about this thing at the heart of the case.
0:47.4	And yet, Keechegi of The Wall Street Journal will tell us if Google loses, and is forced
0:51.9	to break up its ad business, we may be getting online to a very different internet.
0:56.8	It's coming up on today's point.
1:26.8	I see castleszuki.co.uk.
1:28.8	Have you ever been caught out by payments you've forgotten about?
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