The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell out Chrome browser is part of its last remedial proposal in one The case of anti -monopoly is a turning point.
This proposal, was submitted on Friday afternoon, saying that Google must divest a timely and completely timely divestment, along with any assets or services necessary to complete the divestment successfully, giving the buyer the plaintiff approved according to their own decisions, complying with the terms that the court and the plaintiff approve. It will also ask Google to stop paying partners to treat preferential treatment for its search engine.
Doj also requires Google to provide a notice of any new joint venture, cooperate or cooperate with any company that competes with Google in search or in search text ads. However, the company no longer has to divest artificial intelligence investments, this is part of a series of initial recommendations made by the plaintiffs in November last year. The company will still be asked to issue a notice of AI investments in the future.
Through its absolute scale and unlimited strength, Google has claimed consumers and businesses about a basic promise for their public to choose among competitive services, the Doj's statement accompanied by complaints submit applications. Google Google's illegal behavior has created an economic goliath, one thing that causes the devastation in the market to ensure that no problem has happened to Google always winning.
The official Doj has brought his case against Google back in 2020, the most important anti -monopoly case since Doj's many years of battle with Microsoft in the 1990s. The allegation of the case that Google has used anti -competitive tactics to protect its search dominance and fake contracts that guarantee it is the default search engine on smart browsers and smart phones. Due to the search and lawsuit, Google can adjust the auction system, thereby selling ads and increasing prices to advertisers and earning more revenue from there.
Google has argued that its overwhelming success in search, it has nearly 90 % market share in the US market from the best search technology company. It also says that consumers can easily change their default search engine and Google does not face competition from Microsoft and others.
Case Trial in 2023And in August 2024, Judge of the United States of the United States of Columbia, Amit Mehta, ruled that Google has maintained illegal monopolyBoth in general search and general search text advertising.
Most of the ruling focused on the contracts that Google has with equipment manufacturers and browser partners, using Google as their default search technology. According to Mehta's ruling, about 70 percent of search queries in the US occurred through ports of which Google is the default search engine. Later, Google shared revenue with those partners, paying billions of dollars to them, which did not rationalize the smaller search rivals who could not compete with those contracts, Mehta said.
Last November, the Government's lawyer Sent a detailed plan For Mehta, it includes a series of recommendations on the best way to loosen Google on the US search market. These recommendations include that Google quickly divest ChromeIts popular web browser; Can divest Android; At the end of its search partnership with Apple, Apple received billions of dollars each year for its Safari browser to default to Google Search; And giving rivals access to Google data, for both search and advertising, which will give Google a continuous advantage from its exclusion behavior.