Oracle ordered to lower damages claim against Google

23.07.2011

And it's significant that Alsup said Google's ad revenues are linked to the value of Java. Google had argued strongly that the two were unrelated.

"Of course, they do have something to do with the overall value," the judge wrote. "There is evidence, for example, that users with Android phones 'search twice as much' as users with other types of phones, increasing the advertising revenue derived from Google's search service."