August 21 , 2024
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	- Google’s payments to make its search engine the default option on smartphone web browsers violate the US antitrust law.
 
	- Google pays for this privilege and has shelled out more than $26 billion for it in 2021.
 
	- The court ruled that Google had monopoly power in the markets for general search services and general search text ads. 
 
	- It has also slammed Google for failing to preserve employees’ chat messages that could have served as trial evidence.
 
	- In India too, Google has faced allegations of anti-competitive practices.
 

                                 
                            
                                
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