An expert witness testifying for Google says an antitrust case brought against the tech giant drastically underestimates the company's competition.

Lawyers for the government have revealed damning Google correspondence and called witnesses who describe anti-competitive practices. Google, however, says ‘there is no monopoly power.’

So a search engine walks into court… and just like that, Google might not be able to search for a solution to its current woes. Google is in an antitrust trial, and it is looking like U. S. v. Google is going to be quite the digital debacle.

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently in an antitrust trial against Google. The DOJ says that Google has a monopoly in the ad server market. This means that Google has too much control over the buying and selling of online ads.

Apple could be the winner after Alphabet's , with a ruling that supports the iPhone maker's defence in its own antitrust court battle with U.S. prosecutors, legal experts said. A federal judge mostly sided with state and federal antitrust enforcers in the blockbuster case on Monday that ruled Google 's search business was an illegal monopoly,