The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to file two antitrust charges against Google as soon as next month. This report was corroborated by the Wall Street Journal. According to the NYT report , which cites “two people with knowledge of the situation,” the DOJ’s action against Google will be its biggest antitrust case since the infamous Microsoft case, and it will likely be joined by the attorneys general of several U.S. states as well. The WSJ says that the states, which are led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and will include New York, could file their own complaints a few months later. Google’s violations cut to the core of the search giant’s business model, which combines its acumen in Internet Search with online advertising. And it is dominant in both areas. The firm currently controls 90 percent of online searches in the United States and it earns roughly one dollar for every three spent on online advertising in this...