How Google turned into the landmark antitrust case that wasn’t

What stood out about U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta’s opinion in what might have been a landmark antitrust case against Google is how reasonably he settled such a contentious matter. Here was a ruling in an adversarial scrap between the federal government and one of the country’s most important companies that actually made sense — written in reasoned, responsible and, dare I say, mature language.