Google's massive antitrust trial begins, AP Explains

(12 Sep 2023)
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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California – 17 February 2017
1. Various of exterior of Google headquarters
Headline: Google’s massive antitrust trial begins
ANNOTATION: The biggest antitrust trial in decades is underway as the Justice Department charges Google with locking out competitors and smothering innovation.

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ARCHIVE: Washington – 11 October 2019
2. STILL of Exterior of the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse

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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California – 17 February 2017
3. Various of exterior of Google headquarters

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San Ramon, California, US – 11 September 2023
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Liedtke, technology writer, The Associated Press: ++VIDEO CALL++
“Google does have a monopoly. The question of this trial is whether it’s an illegal monopoly. They control 90% of the search market. Google says that’s just because they have the best product out there. And if people don’t want them as the default search engine, they can easily change the settings, but obviously, few people do that. That’s why Google pays so much money to be – there’s some value to being the default of anything, being the thing that people just automatically use.”

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Washington – 12 September 2023
5. STILL of Google’s top litigator John Schmidtlein arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse

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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California – 17 February 2017
6. Various of exterior of Google headquarters

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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California, US – 7 May 2019
7. Wide of Google CEO Sundar Pichai walking onto stage for presentation
ANNOTATION: Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., will have top executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, expected to testify for the case.

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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California – 17 February 2017
8. Various of exterior of Google headquarters
ANNOTATION: Government lawyers charge that Google strong-armed Apple into giving its search engine a default position as a condition for getting revenue share.

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Washington – 12 September 2023
9. STILL of Department of Justice lawyers, including Kenneth Dintzer, center, and Megan Bellshaw, right, arrive at court

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San Ramon, California, US – 11 September 2023
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Liedtke, technology writer, The Associated Press: ++VIDEO CALL++
“They’re basically going to make the argument that Google search is kind of like the digital air we breathe, like almost everyone just kind of does it without even thinking like you’re just Googling to get around. It’s a gateway to the Internet, right? So the government is going to argue that Google search is like the digital air that we breathe. But the company’s tactics have polluted the atmosphere and is damaging the consumers that they’re not getting the best search results.”

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New York City, New York, US – 11 September 2023
11. STILL of various Google logos when searched on Google. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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ARCHIVE: Unknown location- 28 February 2023
12. The Google app icon is seen on a smartphone
ANNOTATION: Today, Alphabet Inc., is worth $1.7 trillion and employees 182,000 people with most of the money coming from $224 billion in annual ad sales.

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ARCHIVE: Mountain View, California – 3 February 2023
13. Various exteriors of Google headquarters
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