The tech giant Google has been hit by the third major antitrust lawsuit filed against the search giant this year. The fresh antitrust lawsuit by a coalition of 38 states in the US focusing on the design of Google.

According to a statement from the New York attorney general's office on Thursday, the states appeals court to stop the tech giant's  illegal conduct and "restore a competitive marketplace." New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James said, "Google sits at the crossroads of so many areas of our digital economy and has used its dominance to illegally squash competitors, monitor nearly every aspect of our digital lives, and profit to the tune of billions."

This is the third major antitrust lawsuit filed against the search giant this year. Texas and nine other US states on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of monopolising or attempting to monopolise products and services used by advertisers and publishers in online-display advertising. The US Justice Department also filed its own lawsuit against Google in October, along with 11 Republican state attorneys general, focusing on Google's exclusive contracts with Android smartphone manufacturers and Apple to set its own search engine as the default option on these devices.

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