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U.S. Government Seeks to Force Google to Sell Chrome Browser to Rectify Search ‘Monopoly’
The Justice Department wants to break up Google -- by forcing it to divest the Chrome browser -- as a way to end its monopoly on search.
In a proposal that could radically alter the internet, the Justice Department is seeking to break up Google — by forcing it to divest the popular Chrome browser — as a way to end its monopoly on search. Among other things, Walker claimed, the breakup proposal would “require disclosure to unknown foreign and domestic companies of not just Google’s innovations and results, but even more troublingly, Americans’ personal search queries.” He also claimed it would “chill our investment in artificial intelligence, perhaps the most important innovation of our time, where Google plays a leading role.” As an alternative to the divestiture of Android, the DOJ — joined by a group of state Attorneys General in the case — “have presented behavioral remedies that would blunt Google’s ability to use its control of the Android ecosystem to favor its general search services and search text ad monopolies as well as limit Google’s ability to discriminate in favor of its own search and ads businesses.” That option would require “vigilance and oversight” by the court and the government — if this path didn’t result in “meaningful relief in these critical markets,” the court could require Google to divest Android, the filing states.
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