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The Department of Justice is considering the following options: Google splits A federal court reportedly found that the tech giant and its parent company Alphabet maintained an illegal monopoly in the online search market.
Bloomberg News reported. The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division is considering breaking up Google as one of the remedies it may pursue to address the monopolies of Big Tech, according to a person familiar with the department’s deliberations.
The Justice Department reportedly could force Google to sell its Android operating system and Chrome web browser, as well as its text-ad division AdWords, and is likely to seek restrictions on Google’s use of exclusivity agreements to maintain market share, according to sources.
Other options the Justice Department is considering include forcing Google to share more data with rivals and imposing measures to stop the company from gaining an unfair advantage, Bloomberg reported. Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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The Department of Justice could break up Google after a court ruled that the company maintains a monopoly on online search. (Roberto Machado Noah/LightRocket via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The report comes after a federal court ruling earlier this month that Google maintained an illegal monopoly Approximately 90% of online searches and 95% of smartphone searches go through the company’s search engine.
The judge noted that Google paid more than $26 billion in 2021 to keep its search engine as the default option. Web browser and smartphoneMaintain valuable market share.
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Google shares were down more than 3.2% as of mid-afternoon Wednesday.
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The Department of Justice is considering options for dealing with Google’s monopoly and has not made any decisions at this time. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Google has said it plans to appeal Judge Amit Mehta’s antitrust ruling, but the judge has directed the company and the Justice Department to prepare for the next stage of the legal process, which will see the Justice Department submit a proposal to address Google’s antitrust claims.
A Department of Justice spokesperson told Fox Business, “With respect to the Google Search litigation, the Department is evaluating the Court’s decision and will evaluate appropriate next steps consistent with the Court’s direction and the legal framework applicable to antitrust remedies. No decisions have been made at this time.”
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.
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The court found that 90% of web searches and 95% of smartphone searches go through Google’s search engine. (Tirina Karthothej/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Following last week’s ruling, Google Global President Kent Walker said in a statement to FOX Business that the judge’s “ruling recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that it should not be allowed to make it easily available.”
The statement said the court found that Google’s search engine is more widely used and provides better quality search results than its competitors, adding: “Given this, and that people seek information in increasingly diverse ways, we intend to appeal. As this process continues, we will remain focused on building products that people find useful and easy to use.”
The Google search monopoly lawsuit, filed in 2020, marked the first time in a generation that the federal government accused a large company of maintaining an illegal monopoly; Microsoft faced similar charges in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
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Microsoft settled the case. A 2004 Department of Justice lawsuit accused the company of forcing Windows users to use the Internet Explorer web browser.
Over the past four years, federal antitrust regulators have also filed lawsuits against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, as well as Amazon and Apple. Big Technology The company has maintained an illegal monopoly. A separate lawsuit over Google’s advertising technology is set to go to trial in September.
Reuters contributed to this report.
