Google faces landmark US antitrust lawsuit

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The US Justice Department filed its expected antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, marking the most severe legal action to be taken by a government against the tech giant.The 57-page suit accuses Google, a business unit of parent company Alphabet, of being “a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet”, and a far cry from the “scrappy start-up” it recognises Google once was.The action, accusing Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly in internet search and search advertising, comes after increased US political pressur...

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