The National Post reports in its Tuesday, Sept. 12, edition that Bill Gate's videotaped deposition, released as part of the U.S. government's landmark monopoly case against Microsoft in 1998, presented him as evasive, rude and superior. A Telegraph dispatch to the Post reports that it took years for Mr. Gates, who believed the tape would never be shown to the public, to rebuild his reputation. It took Microsoft even longer. While the company avoided being broken up in the legal battle, which centred on its dominance of the PC market, the years of litigation have been cited as a key reason why the company missed out on a new generation of technology such as Internet search, social media and smart phones. Like Microsoft at the turn of the millennium, Google is also reckoning with a changing tide in the tech industry. For the first time in decades, its search engine is under threat, not from a traditional rival, but from artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT that could replace the cascade of links that Google's search engine offers with concise and precise answers. The U.S. case against Google is the culmination of more than a decade of growing regulatory pressure against the company, which last week celebrated its 25th birthday.