https://wccftech.com/google-justice-department-service-bundling/

As their market capitalization reach record levels, major American tech giants such as Amazon.com, Inc, Facebook Inc, Apple Inc and Google are coming under U.S. government scrutiny for anti-competitive practices. Heads of all these companies have testified before members of the Congress to address these concerns, and now, it looks as if Google (parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL)) is under investigation for unfairly bundling its services together to gain an advantage over smaller competitors.

The details for this report come courtesy of BNN Bloomberg, with the publication citing sources privy to the matter stating that officials in the U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys have been prying the company's competitors for details about anti-competitive behavior. This behavior relates to practices that are termed as 'Tying' and refer to Google bunding its advertisement services to prevent its customers (in this case companies who run advertisements on its platforms) from also including its competitors in the entire processing of selling ads.