Google, the Department of Justice, and state attorneys squared off in federal court Tuesday in the biggest technology antitrust trial in years, debating whether the tech giant has unlawful market dominance in search.
The three parties appeared in court in Washington, D.C., to present their opening statements to District Judge Amit Mehta. The arguments are the beginning of a weekslong trial between the tech giant and the federal agency over allegations that Google had created a monopoly through its agreements with web browsers and phone makers to have Google as the default search engine.
He also alleged that Google’s leadership, including CEO Sundar Pichai, explicitly attempted to hide internal communications by asking employees to allow their DMs to be deleted after 24 hours. “They turned history off, your honor, so they could rewrite it here in this courtroom,” Dintzer argued. William Cavanaugh, who is the lawyer representing a group of states who also sued Google in 2020, argued that Google’s control of the advertising market allows it extensive control of advertising pricing. Cavanaugh argued that Google harmed Microsoft by temporarily withholding certain features from its advertising.
“Users today have more search options and more ways to access information online than ever before,” Schmidtlein argued. He also kept his focus on Microsoft, noting how Google was able to beat the software giant in search dominance through product quality. Mehta seemed to push back on Schmidtlein about whether he could prove that users usually swap browsers by default. Google's lawyer was unable to present any substantial data due to the ability of users to easily swap back and forth.
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