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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been nowhere to be found as the company weathers a series of critical antitrust court battles – and their absence is part of a long-running habit by the pair of avoiding direct federal scrutiny over the Big Tech firm.
A federal judge’s headline-grabbing rebuke of Google’s “disturbing” effort to destroy evidence last week could become a powerful weapon in the Justice Department’s landmark effort to break up its search empire – and could haunt the company in court for years to come, according to legal experts.