A US judge has ruled internet giant Google has an illegal monopoly in search and search advertising. The US Department of Justice sued Google in 2020 for allegedly maintaining an illegal monopoly, arguing its dominant position was harming consumers. In a ruling on Monday, Judge Amit Mehta said Google’s dominance had gone unchallenged for well over a decade. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintainits monopoly,” Mehta wrote. Google had a “major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals: default distribution,” Mehta said, as Google was the default search engine on devices. “I…