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Google should relax ad tech rules, appoint antitrust monitor, US judge finds
Google said on Wednesday it disagreed with US District Judge Leonie Brinkem's liability ruling on its Google Ad Manager publishing tool, and will appeal. It also maintained that a divestiture would have made it harder for small businesses to reach customers.
A federal judge said Google should relax its rules governing its online advertising auctions and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, while stopping short of demanding that the Alphabet unit break up its advertising technology monopoly.
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, gave her assessment in a 106-page decision unsealed on Wednesday, two weeks after she rejected the US Department of Justice's insistence that Google break up its business of placing ads across the internet.
