When it goes on trial in D.C. District Court next week, Google gave a glimpse of its defence strategy on Friday against allegations of illegal monopolisation by the US government.
The Department of Justice successfully argued that Microsoft had broken antitrust law more than 20 years ago, making this trial the first significant tech antimonopoly case in the U.S. in decades.
In this action, the DOJ and a group of state solicitors general claim that Google utilised exclusivity agreements with browser producers like Apple and phone manufacturers that use its Android operating system to bar competitors from the general search market. Additionally, the states will contend that Google intentionally restricted advertising to its own services by not making its search advertising tool compatible with Microsoft’s Bing.
Source (CNBC)
