The Google Search results are in. No, not that kind of search result—the ruling in the D.C. District Court case United States v. Google, which asks what to do with Google's illegal monopoly on internet search traffic.

This case had all the makings of a summer blockbuster. Indeed, the previews were spectacular, with Judge Amit Mehta holding quite concretely last year that "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly." That opinion sent shockwaves throughout the tech community and Wall Street.

Increasing the heat, Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) called for strong remedies that would have done a lot to quell the concern. The DOJ asked Google to divest from Chrome and Android; share search data with competitors to help them scale up; enact measures to prevent self-preferencing; and stop paying Apple for default status on its Safari browser—the second-largest mobile browser outside of Chrome.

The anticipation of Judge Mehta's follow-up decision, released September 2, led many to anticipate that "the case could change how tech giants are able to do business and, in effect, how the internet is run." Others

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