US to accuse Google of protecting illegal monopoly

In the indictment that will be filed with a federal court in Washington, DC, the agency will accuse Google of illegally keeping its monopoly on research through some exclusive business contracts and agreements blocking competition, officials said, who were not authorised to speak. Such contracts include paying Google billions of dollars for Apple to set the Google research engine as the iPhone default, A2 reports.

The agency will argue that Google, who controls about 80 percent of the research questions in the United States, reached agreements with telephone producers using Alphabet's operational system to advance the search engine on their phones and make it difficult for rival search engines.

The indictment reflects the return against the power of the country's largest corporations, and especially technology giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Consumers like President Trump and liberals like Senator Elizabeth Warren have been highly critical of the concentration of power in a small part of technology.

The documents deposited by the Department of Justice show that 11 US states, too, have joined in the action against Google.

The American authorities' action follows the Congress report accusing the great names in Silicon Valley of monopoly and showed the need to make changes.