1. What is an antitrust lawsuit? What is another example, besides Google, where an antitrust

lawsuit was brought against a firm?

2. What is Google accused of doing? That is, what specific practices of Google are the DOJ claiming

are anti-competitive or abuses of their monopoly power?

3. Why is it in the public's interest to regulate monopolies? For this question, I am not talking just

about Google, I am talking about monopolies in general. Your reasoning should be based on

economic principles from our class and not on political ideology or corporate sloganeering.

4. What outcome would the DOJ like to see? That is, how are they asking Google to change their

practices?

5. In our class we talked about three kinds of monopolies: natural, ownership, and legal. Which

kind of monopoly do you think Google is? Why?

6. What, if any, are the reasons

not to prosecute Google's monopoly? That is, can you make an

argument that Google's monopoly power is not a bad thing, but is actually beneficial in some

ways?