Google is a search monopoly, Justice Department says in landmark antitrust lawsuit

The US Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a landmark lawsuit against Google that accuses the tech giant of illegally holding monopolies in search and search advertising, the culmination of a more than yearlong investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at the company, and the first such antitrust case in the tech world in decades. 

The federal government alleges that Google violated antitrust laws to act as a “gatekeeper” to the internet. The complaint…