How Google evolved from ‘cuddly’ startup to antitrust target

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google once reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the PC software market to choke off competition, spurring Google to adopt “Don’t Be Evil” as a corporate motto. That pledge is a distant memory, and Google is now in the legal crosshairs of U.S. antitrust regulators who accuse it of wrongdoing similar to charges Microsoft faced 22 years ago, when Google was starting out in a Silicon Valley garage. How Go