A decision is here in the massive, multi-government case against Google. In an August 5 ruling, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that Google violated federal antitrust law. The case stems from lawsuits filed by both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and several U.S. states. In the suits—now consolidated—they argued that Google held a monopoly on internet searches and search advertising and had engaged in “exclusionary conduct” to maintain this monopoly, in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Far from showing Google to be some sort of mustach…