Google set to go and trial over its dominance in search, so we googled some details for you.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lili Jamali.

When's the last time you used Microsoft Bing or Duck Duck Go to search the internet?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Well, the U.S. government and several states say that's no accident.

Next week, in antitrust case, they filed against Google goes on trial.

The original complaint notes Google accounted for almost 90% of all search queries in the U.S.

Googling only got us so far on this one, so we called on Rebecca Allensworth,

an antitrust lawyer and law professor at Vanderbilt.

The government is arguing that the massive dominance that Google has in the search market

is being protected by some contracts that they have, especially with Android and with Apple,

that makes it very hard for any competitors like Duck Duck Go or Bing

to get in front of enough users to have economies of scale to compete.

And what is Google's response been to these allegations?

Well, they have kind of two responses.

One is to say, competition is just a click away.

These are not exclusive dealing contracts, really.

They're just defaults, but you can reconfigure that to choose your own search engine.

And so, really, consumers have choice.

The other thing they're going to say is, we are big.

We are dominant because we're the best.

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