- A Google lawyer says that less than 1% of views on YouTube come from Search links.
- The statistic was shared in federal court as the company attempted to fight off an antitrust lawsuit.
Fighting off antitrust lawsuits is just another day at the office for Google. In fact, the tech giant was busy asking the Ninth Circuit to reverse an antitrust verdict against the Play Store and billing services on Android platforms just last week. However, sometimes it pays off to pay attention to these cases as we can occasionally get little nuggets of information that reveal facts about the business we didn’t know before. Such a detail just happened to be shared last week in a case brought by a rival video platform.
As reported by Courthouse News Service, Google was in federal court last Thursday fighting off antitrust claims from video platform Rumble. The lawyers for Rumble allege that Google is using its monopoly to promote YouTube videos over videos from similar sites. Rumble’s attorney, Jack Stern, told the court: