Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter cen…
By PAUL WISEMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta likely won’t issue a ruling until early next year. If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will decide what steps should be taken to rein in the Mountain View, California-based company.
Dintzer said the more searches Google processes, the more data it collects – data that can be used to improve future searches and give it an even bigger advantage over its rivals. “User data is the oxygen for a search engine,’ he said. Because of its market dominance, “Google search and ad products are better than its rivals can hope to be.’ That is why, he said, Google pays so much for its search engine to be the default option on products from Apple and other companies.
And Dintzer said that Google deleted documents to keep them out of court proceedings and sought to hide others under attorney-client privilege. “They destroyed documents for years,’ Dintzer said. “They turned history off, your honor, so they could rewrite it in this court.’ The trial begins just a couple weeks after the 25th anniversary of the first investment in the company — a $100,000 check written by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that enabled Page and Sergey Brin to set up shop in a Silicon Valley garage.
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