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What's it cost to maintain a monopoly? According to the Department of Justice, about $10 billion a year.

That's how much Google, the DoJ alleges, spends yearly to hold onto its status as the world's most-used search engine. In opening statements Tuesday kick-starting a 10-week trial, the DoJ argued these outlays are exactly what makes Google's search engine dominance an illegally maintained monopoly.

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Source Fool.com