Google Pays $10 Billion a Year To Maintain Monopoly, US Says

Alphabet’s Google pays more than $10 billion a year to maintain its placement as the default internet search engine on internet internet browsers and also mobile phones, suppressing competitors, the US Justice Department claimed Tuesday at the beginning of a high-stakes antitrust test inWashington From a record: “This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition,” Kenneth Dintzer, a federal government attorney, claimed in his opening up declaration. “The evidence will show they demanded default exclusivity to block rivals.” Dintzer claimed Google came to be a monopoly by a minimum of 2010 and also today manages greater than 89% of the on-line search market.

“The company pays billions for defaults because they are uniquely powerful,” he claimed. “For the last 12 years, Google has abused its monopoly in general search.” The monopolization test is the initial …