Reports: Justice Dept. preparing antitrust probe of Google

Washington • The U.S. Justice Department is readying an investigation of Google’s business practices and whether they violate antitrust law, according to news reports.The search giant was fined a record $2.72 billion by European regulators in 2017 for abusing its dominance of the online search market. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission made an antitrust investigation of Google but closed it in 2013 without taking action.Now the Justice Department has undertaken an antitrust pro