a government inquiry there to break up what it described as google s unparalleled power but there is no quick fix these things take a long long time and so far the evolution of tech companies behavior happens faster than legislators legislate and that s been the case for at least the last twenty years and i m sure will be the case for some time the latest one point seven billion dollars fine is barely a dent in the thirty one billion dollar profits of google s parent company alphabet but the cumulative effect is significant and it shows a growing determination to hold big tech companies to account paul brennan al-jazeera london. that is it for me on the team here in london now back to doha and come on a big thank you from the city now a jury in the u.s. has sided with a california man who says monsanto s popular weed killer roundup was a substantial factor in causing his cancer one son to have aggressively defended its product over against thousands of similar cases with us f