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US DoJ Demands Google Sell Off Chrome, End Default Search Payments
- US prosecutors have demanded Google sells off its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals, and take a range of other measures in order to end its monopoly on online search.
- This follows reports earlier this week that the US Justice Department planned to ask a judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser worth up to $20bn.
- In August, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted as a monopolist and violated anti-trust law by spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly.
- In response to the ruling, reports suggested that the DoJ was considering a rare antitrust option that could entail the corporate breakup of Google.
- The DoJ now proposes that Google must divest itself of the Chrome web browser to a buyer approved by the US government.
- The department of Justice has also proposed that Google should fully divest Android to a buyer approved by the US government.
- The DoJ has proposed that Google be prohibited from making payments to third parties to make Google the default general search engine in their products.
- Google must also license search results to competitors at nominal cost, share data it gathers from users with competitors for free, and be banned from collecting any user data that it cannot share due to privacy concerns.
- Google has described the DoJ's structural remedies as a “staggering proposal” that would harm America’s tech leadership.
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