The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they have said on the witness stand.

Antitrust officials had imposed the fine over how the search giant might have restricted the way that some websites displayed ads sold by its rivals.

Google has successfully overturned a €1.5 billion antitrust fine it was handed by the European Commission in 2019.

In an effort to quell monopoly concerns in the EU, Google reportedly offered to sell its AdX advertising marketplace. Sources told Reuters that European publishers rejected Google's offer, arguing that the company would have to divest more in order to dismantle the conflicts of interest in its online advertising operations.

Alphabet's Google earlier this year offered to sell its advertising marketplace AdX to allay EU competition concerns over its adtech practices but the proposal got short shrift from European publishers,

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Google this year offered to sell its advertising marketplace Ad Exchange, or AdX, to end an EU antitrust investigation. But European publishers rejected the proposal, Reuters reported this week . The news agency cited two people with knowledge of the matter but did not name them.