A blockbuster antitrust trial is underway in Washington, DC, the place america Division of Justice and a coalition of state attorneys common have accused Alphabet’s Google of unlawfully abusing its dominance within the search engine market to keep up monopoly energy.
The Justice Division and 52 attorneys common representing US states or territories say Google unfairly solid its domination of on-line search by paying billions of {dollars} to Apple and different enterprise companions to make sure its search engine could be the default on most telephones and browsers.
The federal government’s lawsuit, filed in 2020 in federal court docket, alleges these offers had been meant by Google to be “exclusionary”, denying rivals entry to go looking queries and clicks, and permitting Google to entrench its market dominance.
Google has grabbed a 90 p.c market share in search within the US in recent times, in accordance with authorities estimates.
Al Jazeera’s Colin Baker explains.
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