WASHINGTON (AP) — Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will decide what steps should be taken to rein in the Mountain View, California-based company.
Political Cartoons View All 1152 ImagesGoogle counters that it faces a wide range of competition despite commanding about 90% of the internet search market.
One possibility is that the company could be forced to stop paying Apple and other companies to make Google the default search engine on smartphones and computers.
Distracted, the software giant struggled to adapt to the impact of internet search and smartphones.
Persons:
Judge Amit Mehta, Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, Eddy, Trump, Microsoft's Bing, Andy Bechtolsheim, Page, Sergey Brin, Justice Department's, litigator Kenneth Dintzer —
Organizations:
WASHINGTON, Google, Inc, Apple, Justice Department, Firefox, Regulators, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Netscape, Justice
Locations:
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