"The US Department of Justice (DOJ) claims Google acts as a monopoly, illegally paying billions of dollars to Apple, Samsung, LG and others to make Google the default search engine on phones and computers.

The DOJ says this cuts other players, mainly Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo, out of the market.

Its anti-trust case was launched against the search engine giant in 2020"

#TomKitchin, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018916776/google-the-monopoly-we-don-t-want-to-live-without

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Google: The monopoly we don't want to live without

Google is the big, intrusive company that we welcome into our lives with open arms because of the way it helps us through our daily lives. Will a ruling from the US say it's gone too far?

RNZ