Google argued Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department's allegations that it broke antitrust law to build and maintain its dominance of search are flawed and that its lawsuit should be thrown out.
The government, which filed its lawsuit in the waning days of the Trump administration, has argued that Alphabet's
Judge Amit Mehta actively questioned Google's lawyer, John Schmidtlein. Mehta pressed him, for example, on if being dominant in search means that Google's search engine will improve faster than its competitors. He also asked if the deals were "anticompetitive" and gave the company an advantage. The decision on summary judgment will be decided by Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case is slated for trial in September.
The Justice Department sued Google in 2020, accusing the $1 trillion company of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals in the biggest challenge to the power and influence of Big Tech since it sued Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices in 1998. A settlement left the company intact although the decision to rein in Microsoft left room for Google, which was founded in 1998, and others to thrive.
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