* US Justice Department, 11 States Sue Google (By Masood Farivar, October 20, 2020)

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US Justice Department,

11 States Sue Google

WASHINGTON -   

The U.S. Justice Department along with the attorneys general of
11 states brought a massive anti-trust lawsuit against
Google on Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of maintaining
illegal monopolies over search and search advertising on the internet. 

  ; attorneys general   법무장관 

  ; anti-trust lawsuit 독점금지 소송

  ; illegal monopolies 불법 독점

The widely expected lawsuit, the most significant anti-trust case
since the Justice Department sued Microsoft for its monopoly of
the software market in 1998, stemmed from a yearlong investigation
into Google and three other tech giants — Apple, Amazon and Facebook.  

Attorney General William Barr called the lawsuit a monumental case

“both for the Department of Justice and for the American people.”

"This lawsuit strikes at the heart of Google's grip over
the internet for millions of American consumers, advertisers,
small businesses and entrepreneurs beholden to an unlawful monopolist," Barr said.
 ; grip over 장악~

 ; entrepreneurs 기업가, 창업주

 ; beholden 은혜를 입은, 혜택을 받은
 ; unlawful monopolist 불법 독점가
   

For years, the 64-page lawsuit alleges, Google "has used

anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies

in the markets for general search services, search advertising,

and general search text advertising—the cornerstones of its empire.”
 ; alleges 주장~
 ; search text advertising 문자 광고 검색
      

Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Google pays manufacturers

like Apple and U.S. wireless carriers, such as AT&T, billions of
dollars each year to secure default status for its search engine on 

billions of devices and computers around the world.
Users rarely change the default, effectively blocking rival search engines,

the lawsuit alleges.
 ; Specifically 구체적으로는, 자세하게는,
 ; to secure default status for its search engine 검색엔진이 자동으로

   구글을 선택하도록 확보~
   

Advertisers pay Google $40 billion a year for these search ads,

according to the lawsuit.
The company then “shares” a portion of the revenue with

distributors and carriers who agree to keep Google

as their default search engine, the lawsuit says.
 ; Advertisers 광고주들은
 ; revenue 수입
 ; distributors and carriers 포탈과 통신사들
   

“Google has foreclosed any meaningful search competitor
from gaining vital distribution and scale,
eliminating competition for a majority of search queries
in the United States,” the complaint says.
 ; foreclosed 배제하였다
 ; eliminating competition 경쟁을 제거하였다   

In recent years, Google has faced hefty fines over its business

practices in Europe.
The European Union fined Google $1.7 billion in 2019 for stopping

websites from using Google's rivals to find advertisers,
$2.6 billion in 2017 for favoring its own shopping business in search,

and $4.9 billion in 2018 for blocking rivals on its wireless Android

operating system, the Reuters news agency reported.
 ; hefty fines 거액의 벌금  

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