The case is the culmination of antitrust probes launched against Google and other Big Tech companies over the last several years.
After years of investigations, lawsuits, the threat of legislation and plenty of congressional hearings, the federal government’s case against Big Tech is ready to have its big moment in court.
“This will draw comparisons as the biggest antitrust case since the Justice Department took on Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.93% a quarter-century ago,” Rick Rule, an antitrust lawyer and former assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, said in an interview. Justice Department officials argue that Google illegally leveraged agreements with phone makers such as Apple Inc. AAPL, -3.40% and Samsung Electronics Co. 005930, +0.57% and with internet browsers like Mozilla to be the default search engine for their customers, thus preventing smaller rivals from gaining access to that business.
Google, which was successful in having some of the government’s claims thrown out in August, contends its deals with Apple and others were not exclusive and that consumers could change the default settings on their devices to choose other search engines.
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