The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell its Chrome -Browser as part of its final remedial proposal in a historical antitrust case.
The proposal, submitted on Friday afternoon, says that Google “must be repelled immediately and completely, together with any assets or services that are necessary to successfully complete the repulsion, to a buyer who has been approved by the claimants to his own discretion, under conditions that the court and claimants approve.” It would also require Google to stop paying partners for a preferential treatment of the search engine.
The DOJ also requires that Google offers prior notice of a new joint venture, collaboration or collaboration with a company that competes with Google in searches or in search stads. However, the company no longer needs to dispose of its artificial intelligence investments, which was part of a first series of recommendations issued by the claimants last November. The company would still be obliged to give prior notice of future AI investments.
“Due to the enormous size and unlimited power, Google has robbed consumers and companies of a fundamental promise that the public owes – their right to choose between competitive services,” the Doj statement at the archiving claims. “The illegal behavior of Google has created an economic Goliath, one that causes damage to the market to ensure that – whatever happens – Google always wins.”
The DOJ formally performed its business against Google in 2020, the most important technical antitrust case since the many struggle of the Doj against Microsoft in the nineties. The lawsuit claimed that Google used anti -competitive tactics to protect its search dominance and forge contracts that ensure that it is the standard search engine on web browsers and smartphones. Due to the grip on a search, the court case claimed, Google can adjust the auction system so that it sells advertisements and increase the prices for advertisers, and here more income from Hark.
Google has argued that the overwhelming success in searching – it has a share of almost 90 percent in the American market – of the company that offers the best search technology. It also says that consumers are easily able to change their standard search engine, and that Google has competition from Microsoft and others.
“The radical proposals from DOJ continue to miles miles further than the court's decision and would harm US consumers, economy and national security,” said Google spokesperson Peter Schottenfels in an E -mail statement.
The case went to court in 2023, and in August 2024 the American district judge ruled for the District of Columbia, Amit Mehta, that Google has maintained an illegal monopoly, both in the general search and general search taba edges.
Much of the pronunciation aimed at the contracts that Google has with device makers and browser partners, who use Google as their standard search technology. According to Mehta's statement, around 70 percent of the searches in the US via portals in which Google is the standard search engine is done. Google then shares income with those partners and pays billions of dollars, discovering smaller searches that cannot compete with those contracts, said Mehta.
