Federal prosecutors paint Google as a burly, competition-squashing behemoth.
The way the feds tell it in their landmark antitrust lawsuit against Google, the Mountain View-based tech giant transformed in two decades from a beloved pipsqueak into a burly behemoth gobbling market share and squashing rivals with the ruthlessness of a mobster.
The lawsuit starts off by saying the company 20 years ago was the “darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet.” But in the two decades since, it argues, the company frequently flexed its competition-killing muscle. Central to the case, filed in 2020, are deals Google made with other companies allegedly to keep its competitors’ apps and services off consumers’ computers and phones, and out of the revenue stream that has propelled Google’s parent firm Alphabet to a $1.7 trillion valuation. Federal prosecutors claim the agreements broke the Sherman Act against anti-competitive business conduct.
In its blog post last week, Google argued that “people don’t use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to.”: Google has allegedly achieved dominance through illegal “exclusionary” deals with other companies providing internet services.
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