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As Google’s antitrust trial wraps, DOJ seeks sanctions over missing messages

Lawyers finished closing arguments in the antitrust lawsuit over Google Search.

The fate of Google’s search business is now in the hands of Judge Amit Mehta, as closing arguments concluded in the landmark trial on Friday. The government is trying to show that Google locked up key distribution channels for the general search engine market, so that would-be rivals could not grow into significant threats. The answer to that question can say a lot about whether or not Google has the monopoly power that the DOJ alleges it has created through the contracts it has to be the default search engine on various browsers and devices.

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