The Guardian view on trustbusting Google: change is needed | Editorial

Tech giants are not playing according to economic rules set by the market, but by rules they largely set themselves. That won’t washWhen the US Department of Justice filed a complaint against Google last week it triggered the most significant antitrust case since the federal authorities sued Microsoft in the 1990s. Today’s trustbusters argue that Google’s search and advertising dominance goes well beyond consumer preference and into consumer abuse by forcing people to use its s