Google Heads Back to U.S. Court In Second Antitrust Trial Over Online Ads

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The U.S. Department of Justice's second trial against Google starts this week and it's argued that "Google has used its portfolio of ad tools to create a monopoly, " resulting in higher prices.

The government claims Google is in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, which prohibit anticompetitive behavior. The DOJ will argue that Google locked in publishers and advertisers to its products and that websites had to develop workarounds in response. A coalition of states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Tennessee, joined the case.

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