US proposes Chrome’s sale to break Google Monopoly

In addition to suggesting the sale of Chrome, the US DOJ get the way to a possible separation from Google Business Android; understand

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The United States Justice Department (DOJ) has suggested that Google sold your Chrome browser. For the United States Government, this would restore competition in the online search market. In other words, I would break the Google monopoly.

Demand, filed on Wednesday night (20) in Washington District Court, perfect DOJ’s initial proposal in corrective measures. These measures suggested after Judge Amit Mehta determined that Google maintained the illegal monopoly on searches and advertising.

Before the presentation of the process, it was already ventilating what proposals would do. In addition to Chrome’s sale, the “Package” suggested by the United States Government Open the way for a possible Google Business Android separation.

DOJ suggests chrome sale and Android disassembly if other measures are insufficient

DOJ proposes measures that include Chrome’s separation and potentially Android If other actions are insufficient to restore competition. Or to prevent Google from moving new rules.

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For the United States Government, Chrome’s sale would reset competition to the search market (Image: 2lltgamingroom/Shutterstock)

In addition, DOJ suggests prohibiting Google:

  • Pay to be the standard search engine (as you did with Apple to be the standard search engine in Safari in iPhone, iPad and Mac);
  • Prioritize your search engine on your platforms (YouTube and Gemini, for example);
  • Hinder the presence of competitors.

DOJ also proposes that Google Allows competitors to use your search index at affordable costs and Choose, without prejudice, it does not appear in the “general views” – “Vision created by ia”, summaries generated by Google in search.

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DOJ will present a revised version of his proposals in March 2025Before returning to court in April, when the judge will determine corrective measures to restore competition in the online search market.

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Google considers DOJ suggested measures as “excessively radical” (Image: an artist/Cutterstock)

Google has classified DOJ’s measures as “excessively radical) and stated that they would harm consumers and US technological leadership. This is what is said in a statement attributed to Kent Walker, legal director of Alphabet, published on the Google blog.

Pedro Speponi is a graduate journalist at the Methodist University of Piracicaba (Unimep). He has written for websites, magazines and even a newspaper. In the digital aspect, write -(almost) everything.

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