The lawsuit, filed in 2023, claimed that Google had become "America's largest news publisher" by exploiting its monopoly on internet search. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, stating that the plaintiffs failed to establish Google's monopoly power in the online news market. The publishers alleged that Google forced them to provide news content for free and used their information to train its artificial intelligence products and populate its search results pages. The court found that the lawsuit was filed too late and that the publishers had no legal standing as their injuries were not in the general search market.