Events indexed under #Google — 20 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-20 | DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens OECD · Google · Alphabet · Tax Justice Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-12 | France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M Google · French tax authority · French government · Bruno Le Maire (Finance Minister) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-31 | Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-27 | EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future In-Q-Tel · Google Ventures · Recorded Future · Christopher Ahlberg | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Eric Schmidt | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Irish government · +3 | confirmed |