Google DOJ trial embarrassing document

More documents from the antitrust trial against Google are surfacing.

Ars Technica tells us DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide:

The US Department of Justice has finally posted what judge Amit Mehta described at the Google search antitrust trial as an “embarrassing” exhibit that Google tried to hide from the public.

The document in question contains meeting notes […] that Google’s search advertising “is one of the world’s greatest business models ever created” with economics that only certain “illicit businesses” selling “cigarettes or drugs” “could rival.”

There we go. Nothing is surprising, but this is revealed in public light. Rembember Google has a dominant position on advertising and all the effort they put into their dominant web browser, Chrome, is to basically lock that advertising business in. Competition in illicit business gets literally destroyed.