Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades

Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades
The Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago (Peter Morgan/AP)

Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning on Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century.

Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favour by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices.

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