WASHINGTON: The US government on Tuesday (Sep 12) accused Google of paying out US$10 billion a year to Apple and other firms in order to safeguard its monopoly over online search. The accusation came on the opening day of a landmark trial that is the biggest antitrust case in the United States in more
WASHINGTON: The US government on Tuesday accused Google of paying out US$10 billion a year to Apple and other firms in order to safeguard its monopoly over online search.
Over 10-weeks and with dozens of witnesses called to the bar, Google will try to persuade Judge Amit P. Mehta that the case brought by the Department of Justice is without merit. "Even for Washington DC, I think we have the highest concentration of blue suits in any location here today," Mehta joked, observing the dozens of lawyers packed into his courtroom.
Over the past decade, this created what the government calls a"feedback loop" in which Google's dominance grew ever bigger because of its monopolist access to user data that rivals could never match. "We will track what Google did to maintain its monopoly ... It's not about what it could have done or should have done, it's about what they did," Dintzer told the court.Google firmly rejected the US case saying that its search engine was successful because of its quality and the huge investments made over the years.
The biggest alleged victims in the case are rival search engines that have yet to eke out a meaningful market share for search or search ads against Google, like Microsoft's Bing and DuckDuckGo.
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