Competition probe into Google's ITA Software deal

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Google bought ITA Software, one of the Web's key providers of airline travel software, for $700 million in July, in a move that Google said would allow it to improve the way consumers find flight and fare information online.

The Justice department's probe is at an early stage, the Journal reported.

Antitrust authorities are focusing on whether rivals would continue to have access to ITA's data and whether Google would unfairly steer Web searchers to its own travel services, the newspaper said.

Government lawyers are asking executives in the online travel industry if Google could unfairly disadvantage potential new rivals by cutting off their access to ITA's software.

Google had said earlier that the ITA Software deal should not raise antitrust concerns because it does not compete with ITA.

Google and the Department of Justice could not immediately be reached for comment.