US takes on Google in landmark antitrust trial

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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Google faces its biggest ever legal challenge in a Washington court on Tuesday, as it fends off accusations from the US government that it acted unlawfully to build its overwhelming dominance of online search.

Over ten weeks of testimony involving more than 100 witnesses, Google will try to persuade a federal judge that the landmark case brought by the Department of Justice is without merit.The trial is the biggest US antitrust case against a big tech company since the same department took on Microsoft more than two decades ago over the dominance of its Windows operating system.

In its defense the company contends that its success is due to the unbeatable quality of its search engine that has been judged a cut above the rest since its launch in 1998 by founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page.'In sum, people don't use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to,' said Kent Walker, Google president of global affairs in a blog post.The trial will be presided over and decided by Judge Amit P.

 

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