In its complaint, the Justice Department makes sweeping allegations thathas stifled competition to maintain its powerful position in the marketplace for online search and search advertising. As a result, "Google effectively owns or controls search distribution channels accounting for roughly 80 percent of the general search queries in the United States." The Google suit also symbolizes the growing criticism, particularly by former Democratic presidential candidates including Sens. Google's critics have complained that its search business promotes Google's own apps and services to users while demoting those of its rivals. "Google search is a set of algorithms designed to make Google — or Alphabet, its parent company — the most money it can possibly make."

Source: CNN October 20, 2020 12:50 UTC