Class action filed against Google for alleged monopoly on Internet searches

Published May 6, 2014 7:41pm ET



SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Two men have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, claiming it has monopolized Internet and mobile searches in the United States.

The lawsuit alleges that Google’s monopoly of the United States’ market for Internet and mobile searches stems from the company’s purchasing of Android mobile operating system to maintain and expand its monopoly by pre-loading its own suite of applications onto the devices by way of secret Mobile Application Distribution Agreements.

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