⁍ The lawsuit, which was joined by 11 states, marks the biggest antitrust case in a generation.

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⁍ The complaint says that Google has nearly 90% of all general search engine queries in the United States.

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⁍ Attorney General Bill Barr said his investigators had found that Google does not compete on the quality of its search results.

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– The Justice Department has filed what it says is the “biggest antitrust case in a generation”—and one that could lead to the breakup of Google. The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the tech giant of illegally using its search engine to keep rivals out of its way and stifle innovation, reports Reuters. Attorney General Bill Barr says the department has found that Google does not compete on the quality of its search results but instead buys its success through payments to mobile phone makers and others. “The end result is that no one can feasibly challenge Google’s dominance in search and search advertising,” Barr said. The lawsuit, which was joined by 11 states and the District of Columbia, seeks “structural relief as needed to cure any anti-competitive harm.” It compares the case to the 1998 lawsuit against Microsoft and the 1974 case against AT&T that led to the breakup of the Bell System, reports the Wall Street Journal. Google issued a statement calling the lawsuit “deeply flawed” and saying people “use Google because they choose to—not because they’re forced to or because they can’t find alternatives.” The company says it has ” invested billions in infrastructure, AI, technologies, software, engineering, and talent” and “you can’t simply unwind a decade of significant progress.”