A Justice Department’s litigator said Tuesday that the case is about “whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition.'
Evercore ISI senior managing director Mark Mahaney discusses the DOJ's lawsuit against Google over ad technology on 'Varney & Co.'that the Justice Department is describing as a "monumental case" is kicking off Tuesday in Washington, D.
C. The Justice Department and 11 attorneys general filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in October 2020 to "stop Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms." "As one of the wealthiest companies on the planet with a market value of $1 trillion, Google is the monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and countless advertisers worldwide," the Justice Department said at the time. "For years, Google has accounted for almost 90 percent of all search queries in the United States and has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in search and search advertising. "As alleged in the Complaint, Google has entered into a series of exclusionary agreements that collectively lock up the primary avenues through which users access search engines, and thus the internet, by requiring that Google be set as the preset default general search engine on billions of mobile devices and computers worldwide and, in many cases, prohibiting preinstallation of a competitor," it added. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, including Kenneth Dintzer, center, and Megan Bellshaw, right, arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse onTuesday, Sept. 12, in Washington, D.C. Google will confront a threat to its dominant search"to be the default -- and de facto exclusive -- general search engine on Apple’s popular Safari browser and other Apple search tools." Then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the litigation is "a monumental case both for the Department of Justice and for the American people."
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