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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Alejandro86 and soft media users 1520111 for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 12 (Xinhua)-- the US Department of Justice launched a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google in October 2020, accusing the technology giant of monopolizing search and search advertising.

The lawsuit is being tried separately in 35 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam, and the latest news is that these cases have been consolidated into one case. Over the next ten weeks, the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general will debate in Washington.

CTOnews.com Note: this case focuses on "exclusive deals" between Google and mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple, as well as Google's practice of pre-installing services on Android devices.

The Justice Department took Google to court on Tuesday in a landmark trial marking the first antitrust lawsuit against a large technology company in more than 20 years.

The Justice Department alleges that Google illegally established its dominance in online search by signing exclusive contracts with device makers, mobile operators and other entities, hurting competitors such as Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo.

Google argues that its dominance is not the result of any illegal activity, but the superior quality of its search engine and consumer preferences. Google Global Affairs President Kent Walker (Kent Walker) stressed:

People use Google not because they have to, but because they want to use it. It's easy to switch to the default search engine-we're long past the days of dial-up and CD-ROM.

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