It claims Google's search engine harmed consumers by stifling competition.
Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images, FILEis set to go to trial Tuesday as the government seeks to prove the Big Tech giant harmed American consumers by stifling competition to maintain its dominance as the internet's leading search engine.
The lawsuit, originally brought by the Trump administration, alleged that Google acted as a "monopoly gatekeeper to the internet" for billions of users worldwide in part by using "anticompetitive tactics" by entering into exclusionary agreements with phone makers and other browsers to have Google as their default web searcher.
"Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet. That Google is long gone," the government said in its initial 2020 complaint against the company. "The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet, and one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, with a market value of $1 trillion and annual revenue exceeding $160 billion. For many years, Google has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising—the cornerstones of its empire.
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