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US Department of Justice is an American IT dinosaur company.
They filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Some analysts say that President Trump, who was usually dissatisfied with Google and Facebook, filed a political lawsuit ahead of the presidential election.
In New York, correspondent Kim Jong-won reports.
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is a complaint issued by the US Department of Justice against Google.
I wrote that Google is illegally maintaining a market monopoly in areas such as Internet search and advertising.
He also argued that the appearance of innovative startups 20 years ago disappeared and became the gatekeeper of the Internet.
Google has provided billions of dollars to manufacturers and carriers so that smartphones and computers can be sold with their search engines installed as basic apps, while at the same time preventing competitors' apps from being deployed.
[John Blank/Investment Specialist: Google will have to put years in this case.
It will probably take at least five years.]
Google immediately rebelled.
Google argued that it was a consumer choice, and that it had neither forced them to use Google nor prevented competitors from entering the market.
Some analysts say that President Trump, who usually complained about Google being unfair to the conservatives, filed a lawsuit with political calculations ahead of the presidential election.
The monopoly of IT giants has been mainly raised by the Democratic Party, so the analysis that antitrust lawsuits filed against Google will not end easily, regardless of who will become president in this presidential election.