Google faces its biggest ever legal challenge in a Washington court on Tuesday, as it fends off accusations from the US government that it acted unlawfully to build its overwhelming dominance of online search.
Over ten weeks of testimony involving more than 100 witnesses, Google will try to persuade a federal judge that the landmark case brought by the US Department of Justice is without merit.
The Google case centers on the government's contention that it illegally forged its domination of online search by entering into exclusive contracts with device makers, mobile operators and other companies that left rivals no chance to compete. The biggest alleged victims in the case are rival search engines that have yet to scratch out a meaningful market share against Google, like Microsoft's Bing and DuckDuckGo.Google remains the world's preeminent search engine, capturing 90 percent of the market in the United States and across the globe, much of which comes through mobile usage on iPhones and phones running on Google-owned Android.
The company has faced major legal action in Europe, where it was fined more than $8.8 billion for various antitrust violations, although those decisions are under appeal.
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