Google faces second day of closing arguments in US antitrust trial
Alphabet's Google on Friday in a second day of closing arguments focused on accusations that the online search leader broke the law to stay on top in search advertising.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Thursday peppered both sides with questions seeking to better understand the case ahead of making a ruling.
Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill Courses
Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisit The Justice Department has hammered away at Google in a trial that started on Sept. 12, arguing the search engine giant is a monopolist and illegally abused its power to boost profits.
On Friday, Google and the government's lawyers are expected to focus their arguments on claims that Google's business contracts harmed competition for search advertising.
Witnesses from Verizon, Android maker Samsung Electronics and Google itself testified about the company's annual payments — $26.3 billion in 2021 — to ensure that its search is the default on smartphones and browsers, and to keep its dominant market share.
Google has claimed that search advertising markets are competitive, but the government asserts that the tech giant manipulated ad auctions and could increase prices as wanted without fear of harming business.
Mehta is expected on Friday to take up the government's claim that Google intentionally destroyed internal documents that were relevant to
