Google rejects DOJ antitrust claims in court filing
Google is pushing back to court this week over antitrust complaints filed against it by the Justice Department two months ago.
In a legal filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google has dismissed or partially dismissed nearly 200 specific complaints against it. On one account, the fact that Google was “founded in the Menlo Park garage 22 years ago” has made the company side with the Department of Justice.
He said people use his search engine “because they want to, not because they have to or because they cannot easily find other ways to search the Internet for information.”
In October, the Justice Department sued Google for abusing its dominant position in online search and advertising – the government’s most significant attempt to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft over 20 years ago. years.
And last week, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set a tentative trial date for September 12, 2023 for the landmark case.
Google has fiercely denied the government’s claims that it illegally entered into a series of deals to thwart competition in the search market to give it control over a digital advertising market that has generated more than $100 billion. dollars in revenue for the business in the first nine months of this year alone.
The company’s insistence that it did nothing wrong makes a pre-trial settlement unlikely.
