A new Justice Department lawsuit against Google is worth pursuing, experts say, and marks the biggest antitrust case in a generation—comparable to the lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. filed in 1998 and the 1974 case against AT&T, which led to the breakup of the Bell System.
The suit, filed on Oct. 20 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 11 states, asserts that Alphabet Inc.’s Google has tried to maintain its status as a gatekeeper to the internet by using a number of interlocking businesses to shut out competitors, thereby securing itself as a monopoly.
