Australia’s competition watchdog will consider
its own antitrust case against Google, the
commission chairman said this week after the U.S.
Justice Department sued the company for abusing
its dominance in online search and advertising.
Competition and Consumer Commission
chairman Rod Sims described the U.S. case filed
as one of the world’s biggest antitrust cases in
the past 20 years.
“I’m delighted the D.o.J.’s taking it on and
we’ll follow it really closely,” Sims told the
National Press Club, referring to the U.S.
DepartmentofJustice.AUSTRALIAN WATCHDOG CONSIDERS ITS OWN GOOGLE ANTITRUST CASE
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