The Govt. of United States of America has filed a lawsuit against Google. Here is the story in quick bullet points
When anyone buys an Android phone, the search engine that comes on that phone is Google. In some cases, the cell phone maker cannot put any other search engine on the phone. Google holds 80% of the search traffic in the US. Some estimates place that at 90-95%.
Regulators in the US feel that this gives Google a monopoly in the search engine business.
Google has responded that it does not stop the user from going to any other search engine.
According to Google, people can get phones cheaper because Google does not charge for the Android operating system.
Google has also said that it makes no profit from the agreement that stops phone makers from installing other search engines on Android phones. The government, however, just has to prove monopoly, not making profit from that monopoly.
This is not the first time that Google has been sued or fined for being a monopoly. The European Union has fined Google to the tune of roughly 9 billion dollars already.
This is also not the first time that America has sued a company for monopoly. It has successfully sued AT&T in 1974 and Microsoft in 1998. It won both suits.
The Department of Justice has been investigating the 4 Big Tech companies for over a year now.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by the Department of Justice on behalf of the country.