Google will return to federal court Friday to fend off the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to topple its internet empire at the same time it’s navigating a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence t

Tech titan Google now intends to appeal a federal antitrust ruling which found that the company illegally monopolized the online search market. Google revealed the same in a a post on X, stating, “We will wait for the Court’s opinion. And we still strongly believe the Court’s original decision was wrong, and look forward to our eventual appeal.”

Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly described data as “the oxygen” for search engines. And in his ruling against Google in August, Judge Mehta recounted in detail how the company harvests vast amounts of data from user searches and web crawling, then stores and analyzes the data to rule the lucrative market for internet search.