The United States Department of Justice has published a 23-page document calling for the breakup of Google, including the Chrome sale and restrictions on Android. This confirms information that puts Google on the ropes and that can change the global technological landscape.
The sale of the Chrome browser is the largest piece that the DOJ wants to collect in the toughest antitrust case of the many that have been carried out against Google around the world and for various reasons. “The sale will permanently stop Google’s control of this critical search hotspot and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the Internet.”DoJ lawyers argue in the document.
The DOJ also wants Google “stop favoring your own search engine on Android”. If the company does not do so, lawyers argue that It should also be required to ditch its mobile operating system. Other proposals, each tougher, are for Google to syndicate search results separately and sell its click and query data to help rival search engines and artificial intelligence startups.
Google responds to the sale of Chrome
The Internet giant has openly expressed frustration and discontent with the Justice Department’s request that includes the sale of Chrome, which it qualifies as “an amazing proposal” according to message from Kent Walker, legal manager of Google and Alphabet, on the official blog:
“The Department of Justice had the opportunity to propose solutions related to the problem in this case: search distribution agreements with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and wireless carriers. Instead, the Department of Justice chose to push a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technological leadership. The Justice Department’s extremely broad proposal goes far beyond the Court’s decision. “It would destroy a number of Google products (even beyond Search) that people love and find useful in their everyday lives.”.
Walker assures that Google has earned the trust of consumers by offering “the highest quality search engine in the industry” and that separating it from the company would put Americans’ privacy at risk by revealing Google technology, personal search requests and other sensitive information. He also adds that canceling agreements with search engines would harm other companies, such as Mozillawhich charges Google to make its search engine the default.
Google has said it will submit its own proposal to address anticompetitive and monopoly concerns. It is expected that he will do so in December 2024. The truth is that it is unknown what it would be like, we assume it as a kind of ‘self-regulation’ to respond not only to the DOJ, which also, but to the court ruling where he was convicted of monopoly, for use their dominant position in Internet searches to relegate the competition. Google plays it…
