Computer & Communication Industry Association

Washington – The Department of Justice presented opening arguments in its case against Google’s search agreements. While much of the DOJ’s case was tossed out in August for lacking legal merit, it laid the groundwork for its attempt to prove that a type of agreement companies pay another company like a grocery store for prominent placement was exclusionary and anticompetitive for Google.  The DOJ used its opening statement arguing about the importance of  default settings for search engines, and that search would be better if Google had more competitive rivals. Microsoft was...