The Justice Department will ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.
The DOJ will ask the judge who ruled in August that Google illegal monopoly The report said the search market needs measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system.
The DOJ declined to comment. In a statement from Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs, Google said the DOJ is pursuing a “radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case” and will harm consumers.
The move would be one of the most aggressive efforts by the Biden administration to curb Big Tech monopolies.
Ultimately, however, Donald Trump’s re-election to the presidency may have the greatest impact on the case.
Two months before the election, Trump Claimed he would sue Google Which he considers to be prejudice against him. But a month later, Trump questioned whether breaking up the company was a good idea.
The company plans to appeal after US District Judge Amit Mehta issues a final ruling, which is likely to take place by August 2025.
Prosecutors had offered a number of possible remedies in the case, ranging from terminating exclusive agreements to paying Google Apple profits billions of dollars every year And other companies will divest parts of their businesses, such as the Chrome browser and the Android operating system, to remain the default search engine on tablets and smartphones.
Google says its search engine has won users over with its quality, adding that it faces tough competition from Amazon and other sites and users choose other search engines as their default. Can.
Bloomberg reports that the government has the option to decide whether Chrome sales are necessary at a later date if some other aspects of the measure create a more competitive market.
