Google officially refuted the US Department of Justice’s monopoly accusation for the first time on Monday, saying that the company did not use multi-billion-dollar agreements with other large technology companies to protect its dominance of online search engines. The US Department of Justice has previously accused Google of using the agreement reached with Apple to maintain its search status.
In a 42-page document, Google denied the allegations made by the US government and multiple states paragraph by paragraph, sometimes even sentence by sentence. Google said that the company “developed, continuously innovated, and promoted its search products” in order to achieve its mission of “organizing world-wide information to make it available and useful everywhere.”
In the three antitrust lawsuits that Google is currently facing, only two antitrust lawsuits were received last week. The other one was initiated by the US Department of Justice in October this year.
In the latest lawsuit filed on Thursday, attorneys general from 35 states accused Google of using anti-competitive behavior to maintain its monopoly on search and advertising. Prior to these lawsuits, Google’s competitors, legislators, and activists have been constantly criticizing big technology companies such as Google and Facebook, accusing these big companies of using anti-competitive methods for years to maintain their monopoly status.
