Google Maps Face Renewed Scrutiny by DOJ's Antitrust Lawyers
- Probe focuses on practices to limit combination of services
- Google says many customers use alternative map providers
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The US Justice Department is investigating Google’s dominance in mapping, reviving a thread of its long-running antitrust investigation into the search giant, according to three people familiar with the probe.
Department lawyers have been seeking information and reinterviewing potential witnesses, the people said, speaking anonymously to discuss a pending investigation. The probe is focused on how Alphabet Inc.’s Google bundles its services, and could result in a new antitrust complaint, they said.