{"id":173011,"date":"2023-09-29T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/google-created-hurdles-to-protect-smartphone-foothold-small-search-firm-says"},"modified":"2023-09-29T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:22:25","slug":"google-created-hurdles-to-protect-smartphone-foothold-small-search-firm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/google-created-hurdles-to-protect-smartphone-foothold-small-search-firm-says","title":{"rendered":"Google created hurdles to protect smartphone foothold, small search firm says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-created-hurdles-to-protect-smartphone-foothold-small-search-firm-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) \u2014 The founder of Branch Metrics, which developed a method of searching within smartphone apps, told a <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/why-is-us-suing-google-antitrust-violations-2023-09-11\/\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">U.S. antitrust trial<\/a> on Wednesday how his company struggled to integrate with devices because of steps Google took to block them.<\/p>\n<p>The testimony came during the third week of a more than two-month trial in which the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to show that Alphabet\u2019s Google <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/GOOGL.O\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(GOOGL.O)<\/a> <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/us-takes-google-much-anticipated-antitrust-trial-2023-09-12\/\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">abused its monopoly<\/a> of search and some search advertising. Google has said that its business practices were legal.<\/p>\n<p>Google is accused of paying $10 billion a year based on \u201crevenue share agreements\u201d to smartphone makers, wireless carriers and others who agree to make its software the default and maintain its monopoly in search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) \u2014 The founder of Branch Metrics, which developed a method of searching within smartphone apps, told a U.S. antitrust trial on Wednesday how his company struggled to integrate with devices because of steps Google took to block them. The testimony came during the third week of a more than two-month trial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1496,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-law","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}