The biggest antitrust case in decadesToday’s antitrust ruling is the biggest since U.S. v. Microsoft , filed in 1998. Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government’s antitrust case against Google. Google’s search index is basically a giant database of the pages and information on the internet. When you type a query into Google’s search engine, it scans this database to return links to webpages. He said any penalties approved by the court that didn’t include Gemini (or other Google AI products now or in the future) would undermine the DOJ’s broader efforts.