Friday how it plans to fight off the U.S. government's charges of illegal monopolization when it goes to trial in District of Columbia District Court next week.
The trial marks the first major tech antimonopoly case in the U.S. in decades, after the Department of Justice successfully argued had violated antitrust law more than 20 years ago.
The DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general allege in this case that used exclusionary contracts with browser makers like Apple and phone manufacturers that use its Android operating system to cut off rivals from access to the general search market. The states will also argue that Google failed to make its search advertising tool interoperable with Microsoft's Bing, in order to allegedly keep advertising spending limited to its own services.
Google has maintained that the government's case is "deeply flawed." Here are the key elements of its defense, as laid out by Kent Walker, the company's president of global affairs, in a on Friday:
The DOJ and the Colorado state AG's office, which is leading the states' case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
