"It would be odd for the second Trump administration to back off a lawsuit that they filed themselves," said Rebecca Allensworth, associate dean for research and anti-trust professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
"So, given that, they can't make it go away. I think that the federal government will stay on it but just how hard they'll push and what they'll ask for, I think, is really uncertain."
The user data that Google secured because of its dominance in search helped "refine Google's search algorithm and sell text ads," Professor Phillips-Sawyer said.
"But, those contracts also make it impossible for any newcomer in search to secure a distribution channel, and without any real possibility of reaching consumers, no one will invest in such innovation."
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