Why are government lawyers in Washington, Texas and beyond thinking about suing Google for being an illegal monopoly? What’s the government suing over exactly? Google is so sprawling that the focus of possibly multiple antitrust lawsuits from the federal government and one or more groups of states is up in the air. One longstanding issue is Google’s evolution from a website that pointed people to the best links online to one that’s swallowing the web. An example: Until a few years ago, if you had searched for a hotel in Niagara Falls, a local burger restaurant or Tom Cruise’s height, Google probably showed you links to Expedia, Yelp or a People magazine article.

Source: New York Times September 24, 2020 16:41 UTC