A 10-week trial starts today with the DOJ taking on Google over its search engine
In 2019, the EU forced Google to give Android users the opportunity to choose a default search engine and browser
The DOJ accuses Google of paying out large sums of money to get a 90% share of the search market
Google doesn’t mind shelling out this kind of money because it makes more than it pays as millions of iPhone, Safari,Galaxy and Firefox users use Google Search allowing Google to charge big bucks to advertisers to reach these consumers. Google also demands that phone manufacturers who want to use the Google Mobile Services version of Android for their handsets use Google Search as their default search engine. All the data that Google collects from its search engine allows it to prevent Bing and Duck Duck Go from obtaining information that could improve their search results.
In 2019 Google was fined billions of dollars by the EC for restricting Android users to selecting Google as their default search engine and Chrome as their default browser. To comply with the EU, Google showed two screens to Android users the first time they opened the Google Play Store app following an update that was about to be disseminated. The screens allowed these Android users to choose a default search engine and default browser from a list that included four Google Search competitors and four Google Chrome competitors.