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The United States Department of Justice and several state attorney generals of the United States are supposedly preparing to bring another antitrust claim versus Google over its online marketing and online search engine supremacy. The match might be submitted in summer season and would check out whether Google utilizes its dominant position to reduce competitors, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, pointing out unnamed sources.
“I’m hoping that we bring it to fruition early summer,” Attorney General William Barr informed the Journal back in March. “And by fruition I mean decision time.”
In March, Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal sent out a letter to Barr, promoting an antitrust evaluation into Google‘s search practices. Google has supremacy in marketing since of “its enormous search engine market share,” their March 10 letter stated. “Google’s online advertising conduct is inextricably linked to Google’s search activities,” the letter stated. “At more than 90% of the global market share for search, the opportunities for anticompetitive conduct are substantial.”
The letter recommended that Google obtained online search engine supremacy “through illicit means,” indicating the European Union fining Google $2.7 billion for controling search engine result in its favor.
Google’s digital marketing practices are currently the topic of an antitrust probe by 50 attorney generals of the United States. The probe was revealed in September 2019, with 48 specifies plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico participating in the examination of whether Google utilizes anticompetitive practices to accomplish supremacy.
Google and the Justice Department didn’t instantly react to an ask for remark.
