The Justice Department plans to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.'s Google to sell its Chrome browser. reported by bloomberg This was disclosed on Monday, citing a person familiar with the plan.
The Justice Department is urging the judge who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolizes the search market to take action related to artificial intelligence and the company's Android smartphone operating system, according to a report. He plans to ask for it.
The Justice Department declined to comment. Google said in a statement from LeeAnne Mulholland, Google's vice president of regulation, that the Justice Department is promoting an “radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case” and could harm consumers. He said there is.
The move would be one of the Biden administration's most aggressive attempts to rein in what it claims is a Big Tech monopoly.
But ultimately, Donald Trump's re-election as president may have the biggest impact on the case.
Two months before the election, Trump claimed he would sue Google for what he believed to be bias. But a month later, President Trump questioned whether dissolving the company was a good idea.
The company plans to appeal the case once U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issues a final ruling, which is likely to be handed down by August 2025.
Prosecutors allege in the lawsuit that the company's efforts range from ending exclusive agreements in which Google pays Apple and other companies billions of dollars a year to remain the default search engine on tablets and smartphones to selling off parts of its business. Various remedies were proposed. Such as the Chrome browser or the Android operating system.
Google claims its search engine wins users for its quality, adding that it faces stiff competition from Amazon and other sites and users can choose other search engines as their default. .
Bloomberg reports that the government has the option to decide whether a Chrome sale is necessary at a later date if other aspects of the bailout make the market more competitive.
