Tuesday's federal lawsuit marks a rare moment of agreement between the Trump administration and progressive DEMOCRATS.
Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted, using the hash tag #BreakUpBigTech, that she wanted "swift, aggressive action."
The filing's timing fulfills a promise made by President Trump to hold companies to account for stifling conservative voices.
Social media companies, including Google, often take action to reduce the spread of conservative viewpoints on their platforms.
11 states joined the lawsuit.
More lawsuits could be in the offing, since probes by state attorneys general into Google's broader businesses are under way, as well as an investigation of its digital advertising businesses. Attorneys general are expected to file a separate lawsuit focused on digital advertising as soon as November, while a group led by Colorado is contemplating a more expansive lawsuit against Google.
The lawsuit comes more than a year after the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission began antitrust investigations into four big tech companies: Amazon.com Inc , Apple, Facebook Inc and Google.
Seven years ago, the FTC settled an antitrust probe into Google over alleged bias in its search function to favor its products, among other issues. The settlement came over the objections of some FTC staff attorneys.
Google has faced similar legal challenges overseas.
The European Union fined Google $1.7 billion in 2019 for stopping websites from using Google's rivals to find advertisers, $2.6 billion in 2017 for favoring its own shopping business in search, and $4.9 billion in 2018 for blocking rivals on its wireless Android operating system.
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