So a search engine walks into court… and just like that, Google might not be able to search for a solution to its current woes. Google is in an antitrust trial, and it is looking like U. S. v. Google is going to be quite the digital debacle. The stakes are high.

Lawyers for the government have revealed damning Google correspondence and called witnesses who describe anti-competitive practices. Google, however, says ‘there is no monopoly power.’

Google’s YouTube isn’t the focus of the Justice Department’s second antitrust case against Google, now on trial in a Virginia courthouse. The case centers on the tech giant’s dominance of tools used by other companies buying and selling ads across the web and whether that sway hurts independent

As the government wraps up its case, it has built a picture of how Google has become dominant among companies that buy and sell ads online.