Google is facing the biggest antitrust case in a generation. What could happen?

Filing is first step in a battle that could take years, and experts say it will probably move forward even if Biden wins the election

After being hit Tuesday with the most significant monopoly-related charges to be filed in the US in decades, Google has a long road ahead in its quest to prove it does not unfairly dominate the online search engine space.

Google was accused in the long-expected lawsuit of harming competition in internet search and search advertising through distribution agreements - contracts in which Google pays other companies millions of dollars to prioritize its search engine in their products - and other restrictions that put its search tool front and center whenever consumers browsed the web.