The U.S. Justice Department is pressing ahead with its antitrust case against Google
in its favor by locking in its search engine as the one users see first on their devices, shutting out competition and smothering innovation.Google counters that it dominates the internet search market because its product is better than the competition. Even when it holds the default spot on smartphones and other devices, it argues, users can switch to rival search engines with a couple of clicks.
In a 2011 email exchange, Google executives noted that AT&T chose Yahoo and Verizon went with Microsoft’s Bing as its search engine. Google has emerged as the dominant player in internet searches, accounting for about 90% of the market. The Justice Department filed its
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