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　　local time on Thursday, during the hearing of an antitrust lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice accused the federal court that Alphabet’s Google Inc. Electronics and other telecommunications giants paid billions of dollars to "illegally" maintain their position as the largest and largest search engine.

　　Justice Department attorney Kenneth Dintzer did not elaborate on how much Google paid to become the "default search engine," saying only that it was "quite substantial."

　　At a hearing in a federal district court in Washington that day, Dintzer told the presiding judge Amit Mehta that Google invested billions of dollars in default search, and Google knew that users would not modify the default search, "this default search status means Significant, so Google is buying exclusive default search status."

　　Thursday's hearing would amount to the first face-to-face confrontation between the prosecution and defense in the Justice Department's lawsuit against Google for a monopoly. Several officials from the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney general of Nebraska appeared in the gallery that day.

　　The Justice Department has accused Google of violating U.S. law by trying to maintain a monopoly on web search. The core of these allegations is the default search agreement signed by Google and external manufacturers.

　　In addition to the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecutors in several U.S. states have jointly launched a similar independent lawsuit against Google, which will also be tried by Judge Mehta in the future.

　　A formal trial in the Justice Department's lawsuit against Google may have to wait until next year. But Thursday's hearing was the first on substance in the case. During the day-long hearing, the prosecution and defense laid out their views on Google's search business model.

　　Google: DOJ misunderstood search market

　　The Justice Department's lawsuit took place at the end of the Trump administration's administration in the United States. Lawsuits and investigations against tech giants continue under a Biden administration. Just Thursday, the White House hosted a roundtable of experts to discuss the negative impact of big tech platforms on the U.S. economy and adolescent health.

　　In court, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein said that the U.S. Department of Justice and state prosecutors misunderstood the search market and focused too much on small search competitors, such as Microsoft's Bing and DuckDuckGo. In fact, Google also faces Meta, Amazon, Competition from several search service providers such as Grubhub , as well as many websites where consumers search for information.

　　Schmidtlein said that consumers do not need to search Google when they want to shop on Amazon. competition, but that doesn't mean Google doesn't have a strong search competitor.

　　DOJ: This is how Google hurt competitors

　　At present, lawyers for the Justice Department and state prosecutors, as well as Google, agree that it is critical for a search engine to obtain fresh data on users' every search behavior. Google currently controls Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, and Android, the second most popular mobile operating system.

　　In the court statement, Justice Department attorney Dintzer focused on how Google's search engine works and how the default search partnership agreement hurts competitors.

　　Dintzer said that Google has signed default search agreements with many companies, including Google and Apple, Samsung Electronics, Motorola and other smartphone makers, as well as most browser developers, in addition to the three major US mobile operators (AT&T, Verizon and T ) -Mobile). In this way, Google can ensure that the search software will be pre-installed on new phones, guaranteeing the status of default search.

　　Dintzer also pointed out that Microsoft's Bing search is also the default search on its own Edge browser, as well as on Amazon's Fire tablets.

　　Dintzer said that Google's default search protocol makes its own search a "gateway" for many people to search for websites and information on the Internet. In this way, Google can prevent search competitors from expanding their scale, and service scale is an important condition for opponents to challenge Google search. "The exclusive default search protocol allows Google to systematically block rival services."

　　Google: Browsers willing to cooperate are not forced

　　Google lawyer Schmidtlein said that since the early 2000s, Google has signed default search agreements with browser makers such as Apple and Mozilla, but the Justice Department and state prosecutors have not explained why these long-standing agreements have become today. question. In addition, the revenue-sharing partnership provided by Google is important for browser developers such as Mozilla, who provide browser downloads for free.

　　Browser developers and Google don't cooperate because they have to, they look forward to it, Schmidtlein said. He emphasized that Google has achieved success in search cooperation and has done very valuable things, and it is not illegal for Google to use its own advantages to compete in the market.