Google has asked U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to dismiss the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit over its search engine dominance.
The tech giant has also asked Judge Mehta to dismiss a similar suit
brought by a bipartisan coalition of 38 state attorneys general.
- Google
argued that consumers use its search engine because it is a superior
product and not because of anticompetitive agreements.
- The DOJ
claims Google maintains a monopoly in search engines through
exclusionary distribution agreements that direct billions of search
queries to Google every day.
- Google handles about 90% of search-engine queries globally.
- Judge Mehta is expected to give a written decision this spring or summer.
- If Google’s request is denied, the trial is expected to begin later this year.
