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Utah joins antitrust lawsuit against Google accusing the tech giant of illegally suppressing rivals

Attorney General Sean Reyes says the company has used “abusive practices.”

(Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP) Utah joined a multistate lawsuit against Google on Thursday, accusing the Silicon Valley titan of illegally arranging its search results to push out smaller rivals. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said Google has abused its hyper-dominance in the market to force websites to give up valuable data, leverage its dominant position into other markets, grow its supremacy in the browser arena and favor its own line of products.