On Tuesday, I was sitting on my couch, playing with my baby, and I got a news alert on my phone,

that the Justice Department was suing Google.

It's a phone briefing, we understand, being led by the Deputy AG Jeffrey Rosen.

It's the first time the government has gone after big tech like this in more than 20 years.

This morning, the Department of Justice in 11 states filed an antitrust of a lawsuit against Google

for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in general search services and search advertising.

I wanted to find out more about the suit.

And so I searched for the complaint on my phone.

And that search was powered by Google.

You know, on one hand, your desire, your urge to go to Google to find that information is what

millions and millions of people do every day about the most basic queries.

That's Tony Rahm. He covers tech for the Washington Post. And they do this, at least in Google's eyes, because they see Google to be the best search engine available to people right now.

But the thing is, Google's search engine is on my phone by default.

The government basically argues that consumers like me didn't

have much choice in the matter, that Google became the default, not because it's best, but because

it struck a bunch of unfair deals. Deals with Apple and other cell phone makers as well as carriers,

deals that make its search engine and search advertising

not just dominant, but unfairly so.

And in addition to that,

it's made it hard for any other company,

any other potential rival,

to be the next Google, so to speak,

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