The U.S. Justice Department sued Alphabet Inc.¡¯s Google in the most significant antitrust case against an American company in two decades, kicking off what promises to be a volley of legal actions against the search giant for allegedly abusing its market power.
Google, which controls about 90% of the online search market in the U.S., is the ¡°unchallenged gateway¡± to the internet and is engaged in a variety of anticompetitive practices to maintain and extend its monopoly, the government said in a complaint filed Tuesday in Washington. The company has used exclusive deals costing billions of dollars to dominate search and lock out competition from rivals, the U.S. said.
¡°No one can feasibly challenge Google¡¯s dominance in search and search advertising,¡± Attorney General William Barr said. ¡°If we let Google continue its anticompetitive ways, we will lose the next wave of innovators and Americans may never get to benefit from the ¡®next Google.¡¯¡±
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