The US Department of Justice plans to bring charges against Google next week. In the process, allegations are likely to be raised with regard to a distortion of competition in the search engine sector and in search engine marketing.

The US could sue Alphabet’s subsidiary Google as early as next week. Reuters reports, citing three different sources that are involved in the process. Accordingly, the US Justice Department (DOJ) also wants to persuade various attorneys general from the USA to sign the federal indictment. According to reports, the lawsuit is to raise allegations against Google, according to which the search engine company withheld or even withdrawn user data from competitors such as Microsoft’s search engine Bing. These are needed for competitive growth and to serve search engine advertising in the best possible way.