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The Department of Justice today filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging the firm behaved anticompetitively and pushed out competitions in its own search companies.
A business doesn’t need to be a monopoly, without the accessible contest of any sort, to be in breach of antitrust lawenforcement. The legislation is rather primarily worried about what a business does to achieve dominance and exactly what it does with all this dominant place once it is at the very top. And in accordance with the DOJ’s criticism (PDF), Google did really mistreat its oversize market ability to tilt the playing area in its own favour and keep out potential opponents.
“Google is your gateway into the Web,” Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen stated in a telephone with reporters. “It’s claimed its power via exclusionary practices that are damaging to competition”
