What we're learning is the most important antitrust case of the century enters its next

phase.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech, I'm Lili Dramalli.

They were declared the winner of the search engine wars way back in 1998.

Fortune Magazine, saying the company was poised for much bigger things.

That company was actually Yahoo, and turns out that prediction didn't age all that well.

Of course, Google is the real winner in the fight for search engine dominance, and how

it got there is the subject of the US Justice Department's antitrust case against it.

Google has just started mounting its defense as a 10-week trial on the issue near its end.

Such as the case hinges on the idea of defaults, Marketplace's Matt Levin explained to

me how they figure into the federal government's argument.

So DOJ is saying that Google is paying billions of dollars annually.

The New York Times actually just reported 18 billion annually to Apple specifically.

Wow.

Yeah, it's a lot of money even for Google.

They're paying all of that to be the default search engine on iPhones and on other devices.

And being the default search engine has allowed Google to basically eat an estimated 90%

of the search market.

And DOJ saying that's an anti-competitive practice.

90%.

That's huge.

Google now getting its turn to mount its case.

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