For the second time in eight months, Google lost an antitrust case in the U.S. Following the December 2023 loss to Epic Games, which was more embarrassing than anything for Google, the search giant gave the U.S. government its first antitrust win as part of its anti-Big Tech crusade. 

Google had a thin line to walk in going up against the U.S. government. The company needed to talk up its search acumen…