Google wanted to 'own' the mobile search market. The U.S. let it.
The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue. POLITICO 3/16/2021 © POLITICO illustration by Megan McCrink/Photos by iStock The Google Files - Mobile Federal investigators were convinced: Google’s push to take over mobile internet searches was illegal. They had the evidence and urged their bosses to sue. But those politically appointed bosses overruled them. Nearly a decade later, the Justice Department and state regulators are suing Google over the same multibillion-dollar smartphone contracts that investigators for the Federal Trade Commission ...