Wired has an interesting piece, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-08/mf_googlopoly?currentPage=all Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?, on Google's purported monopoly and interesting comments from a panel discussion at http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/2008conferenceaudio.ashx (The American Antitrust Institute's 2008 Annual National Conference) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_A._Varney Christine Varney, who has been confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the United States Department of Justice. Varney said, "For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem. I think we are going to continually see a problem, potentially, with Google." http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/archives/files/20080619_pv_aai061908holemanbreakout_020320091323.mp3 (mp3 audio, Varney's comments starting at 47:20.)

Other interesting quotes: "I'm deeply troubled by their [Google's] acquisition of DoubleClick. And I'm deeply troubled with their [Google's] deal with Yahoo!" (which we know did not come to pass.)

In the end, Varney said that she believes that the Obama administration may look very critically at Google (that would be probably Varney herself if she's heading up Antitrust for the US DoJ) for any antitrust violations, she doesn't believe that Google will be found guilty.

The rest of her comments, as well as the comments of the first speaker, are pretty interesting- specifically her comments around 1:00 where she talks about how the European courts are more aggressive regarding antitrust than the US has been and that global businesses will have to adhere to European laws, which means that those European laws, which are more restrictive than US laws, will do more to affect global businesses than US laws.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/2.html Section 2 refers to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act Sherman Antitrust Act.