US sues Google over digital advertising dominance
The US government has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of maintaining a monopoly in the digital advertising market through anti-competitive practices. The lawsuit, filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ), alleges that Google has used exclusionary agreements, self-preferencing, and other tactics to prevent rivals from gaining a foothold in the market and to preserve its dominant position. The digital advertising market is a huge industry worth billions of dollars and Google is one of the biggest players in it. The DOJ claims that Google has used its dominance in online search to give its own advertising products an unfair advantage over competitors. Google allegedly uses its market power to force companies to use its advertising products, and it allegedly also uses its dominance to control the prices of online advertising. The lawsuit is a major step in the US government's efforts to rein in the power of big technology companies. The DOJ claims that Goog...