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Google paying over $10bn a year to maintain monopoly - US antitrust trial hears
Court hears claim that Google had “weaponised” the use of default agreements to discourage rivals
A high-stakes antitrust trial opened in Washington on Tuesday with the US justice department claiming that Google pays over $10 billion a year to maintain its position as the default search engine on web browsers and mobile devices.
“This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition,” Kenneth Dintzer, a government lawyer, said in his opening statement. “The evidence will show they demanded default exclusivity ...