The Department of Justice is confirming its demands to break Google’s search monopoly, calling for the sale of Chrome and possibly Android.
I Court to file Published on March 7, the DOJ doubled on the claim that Google search is the result of monopoly methods that have benefited from supporting other services like Chrome and Android, which is almost impossible to fairly.
The revised proposed final decision (RPFJ) states, “The dependence of the American people on Google’s search engine is well -known. However, it is understood that Google has chosen its illegal and unpopular, monopoly practices over the past decade.
According to the plaintiffs, the treatment, “Google needs to divide the chrome-an important division point-to-shield against himself.”
In addition, the court has called for a clause to divide Google to Android, and it includes steps to prohibit Google from “third -party contracts”, which pays Google partners to become default search engine on their devices or services. The most notable of these deals is a partnership with Google’s Apple, which the RPFJ refers to many times, calling such deals “illegal distribution agreements”.
All of this means that Google can be forced to sell chrome, possibly sell Android, and end closing contracts with third parties in which Google pays a default search engine. The court has also suggested that the judge “Google should need to share data to meet the scale loss, which has been created by his illegal behavior.”
In fact, the only thing that the DOJ has withdrawn one step is AI. The new proposal supported the boundaries of Google’s AI investment, a slight change in favor of Google after the initial proposed treatment.
District Judge Amit Mehta had already ruled in August 2024 that Google was monopolized, but how Google has been ordered to resolve the debate, which is left for debate – or, in this case, legal action.
Keep in mind – this is an ongoing case and there is only one proposal from the Filling DOJ in the March 7 court, not the final decision. Breaking monopolies is certainly a good thing for consumers consumers, but as PC Gamer’s James Bentley has pointed out, “Sale (Chrome) can really leave consumers open in technical and morally, bad ways from potential buyers.”
Therefore, it will be necessary for the court to ensure that Google is ensured. Is Forced to sell chrome, it ends in the hands of a responsible company or organization. Nevertheless, it is the world’s most famous web browser we are talking about.
Google has repeatedly urged the DOJ to withdraw, and has termed the DOJ’s suggestions a “radical interference agenda”, but it does not seem that this is about to happen, especially with hearings in April.
The judge has to say that Google has to sell Chrome and possibly even Android, but this is becoming an important brick -trist case that we have not seen. Legalization against Microsoft in 1998.
