Google’s on Trial. No Looking.

U.S. v. Google was supposed to be the “antitrust trial of the century”—the highest-profile, and potentially the most consequential, court battle between a major tech company and the feds since the government sued Microsoft in 1998.

In 2020, the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump sued Google for paying phone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung to make Google their default search engine. Federal prosecutors say that those hefty deals allowed Google, already the dominant search engine in the United States, to further monopolize the search and search advertising industries…