Report: Google Anti-trust Case Could Move Quickly Due to Past Complaints

According to recent reports, the anti-trust investigation into tech giant Google by the DOJ could move quickly due to the company’s lack of political allies and history of complaints.

CNBC reports that two anti-trust lawyers are claiming that once the U.S. Department of Justice makes a formal announcement of its plans to investigate tech giant Google over anti-trust violations, the process will probably move much quicker than most would expect. Many have claimed that the Google investigation could take years, as an investigation into Microsoft by the DOJ two decades ago did, but some experts are not so sure.

Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer who was a key figure in the government’s anti-trust case against Microsoft, and Rutgers Law School professor Michael A. Carrier have both stated that an investigation into Google by the DOJ will “front-loaded,” meaning that it’s likely to move much faster than the Microsoft case which started in 1992 and was settled in 2001.

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