After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.

It is the second time in a year that a U.S. court has found Google to have illegally maintained a monopoly. A judge in Washington, D.C., is now considering a request by the Justice Department to break the company up because of its dominance in online search.

Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, according to a federal judge.