The US Department of Justice sued Google on Thursday, saying it is illegally abusing its monopoly over internet search. Here's what that really means
The building housing the New York offices of Google on Nov. 1, 2018. The Justice Department accused Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly over search and search advertising in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, the government’s most significant legal challenge to a tech company’s market power in a generation.
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