The US Justice Department’s epic trial against Google kicked off on Tuesday with prosecutors claiming that the tech giant “pays more than $10 billion per year” to companies including Apple to protect the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine. ”In a blog post Walker shared earlier this month titled “People use Google because it’s helpful,” Walker reiterated that the DOJ’s arguments are “deeply flawed,” and pointed to Mehta’s narrowing of the case earlier this month, when he dismissed four counts of the lawsuit after determining that government attorneys had failed to show the company damaged rivals like Yelp and Expedia with its online search practices. 72 trillion, Google is the fourth-largest company in the world by market cap