State Attorneys General Launch Google Antitrust Investigation

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Breitbart

State Attorneys General launched the largest, bipartisan antitrust investigation against Google Monday, encompassing nearly every state in the country.

State attorneys general announced Monday that they will begin an antitrust investigation into Google, primarily looking into whether Google’s dominant control of the online search markets and search traffic may have stifled competition, restricted access, and harmed consumers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton started the conference by noting that the search giant “dominates all aspects of advertising on the Internet and searching on the Internet.”

The investigation includes nearly all state attorneys general– except for California and Alabama. The attorneys general from the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico joined the investigation as well. The probe features Republicans, Democrats, and politicians across the political spectrum.

Google collects more than $48 billion in digital advertising spending annually and captures more than 75 percent of online American searching ads.

Paxton added that Google’s dominance on Internet advertising stretches from all aspects of the online advertising markets.

“They dominate the buyer side, the seller side, the auction side, and the video side with YouTube,” the Texas attorney general charged.

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Has Google finally gotten too big for its britches?