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U.S. DoJ could force Google to sell Chrome
- The United States Department of Justice may force Google to sell Chrome due to antitrust violations after the company was found guilty of maintaining illegal search monopoly.
- A report by Bloomberg (paywalled article) outlines the proposals that the DoJ will be recommending to Federal Judge Amit Mehta.
- Google could be forced to part ways with the browser it created 16 years ago, Chrome.
- The antitrust officials want Google to license the search results and data, and allow websites options to prevent their data from being used for Google's AI products.
- Antitrust officials are working on proposals to force Google to split Android from its other products like Search and the Google Play Store.
- Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said this 'radical agenda goes beyond the legal issues in this case', and that it would 'harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership.
- According to StatCounter, Chrome leads the market with a 66.65% share world-wide.
- Regardless of what Chrome's future is, Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera will likely remain unaffected by the proceedings of the antitrust case.
- Google could potentially create a new browser and place a single ad about it on the most visited website in the world, Google.com.
- At its core, Google depends on advertisements, and this is where it will hurt the most. Its search engine is heavily dependent on Chrome.
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