The article highlights the changed legal landscape since the Microsoft antitrust trial in 1998 and closes with this remark:
Fortunately, this trial isn’t the last time Google will be on the stand. And despite Mehta’s caution, we are learning more about Google, just not nearly as much as we should. I didn’t know what to expect from this trial, but a blackout of information wasn’t on my radar. But I guess I shouldn’t have been. After all, who knows more about the value of privacy than Google?