Google back in court to fight search monopoly case

The US would force Google to share the data underpinning its search results, Mr Schmidtlein said, which risks harming user privacy and unfairly penalises Google

Google says the government’s proposal would hurt consumers by breaking a range of products that people use every day and dent US technological leadership. File Picture: Brian Melley

The US government hasn’t broken up a company since AT&T in 1982. Now, it’s trying to persuade a judge to make Alphabet’s Google next.

Yesterday, Google began squaring off against the US justice department and dozens of state attorneys general in a Washington courtroom over what changes US district judge Amit Mehta will order to prevent the company from monopolising the online search market.