Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) kicked off its first major monopolization trial since the Microsoft case of the late 1990s. The target this time is a Microsoft rival: Google. Google’s ubiquitous search engine competes with Microsoft’s Bing, which powers search engines Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.
Thomas Lambert is the Wall Family chair and professor of law at the University of Missouri Law School and the author of How to Regulate: A Guide for Policymakers.
