In the span of two days this week, Alphabet's Google was hit with a court order to open up its app store Play to rivals and learned that the U.S. Justice Department may soon ask a judge to split up the company to limit its hold over online searches.

Here is what has happened so far in the case and what comes next. Oct. 20, 2020 - The Justice Department sues Google alleging that it illegally monopolized the online search and related advertising markets,

A potential breakup of the tech giant may be the biggest result of the court case that said Alphabet's Google has an illegal monopoly on online search.

The U.S. said in a court filing on Tuesday it was considering asking a judge to force Alphabet's Google to divest parts of its business that helped the Big Tech firm maintain an illegal monopoly in online search.

The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly. In a late court filing on Tuesday,