If Google’s a monopoly, who is harmed by its market power?

The US Justice Department’s new antitrust lawsuit against Google argues that both advertisers and regular people are harmed by the tech giant’s position as ‘the unchallenged gateway to the Internet for billions of users worldwide’. — AFP

Google has long defended itself against charges of monopoly by stressing that its products are free and that no one has to use them.

And it’s avoided tough government scrutiny for years based in part on the idea that people searching the internet are not Google’s true customers.