Extreme measures? US wants Google to sell Chrome to fix search monopoly – CyberNews.com
The US Justice Department (DOJ) and a group of states have officially asked a federal court to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser. This would probably change the internet as we know it.
The request is only natural after Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia found in August that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search.
In October, the DOJ already indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy.
Now, both the agency and a group of US states that brought the original antitrust case in 2020 have doubled down on their request to force Google to sell the Chrome browser. If the judge agrees, this will mean huge problems for the tech giant.
Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world with an estimated 67% of the global market. Even if, according to Bloomberg, Chrome could be sold for as much as $20 billion, surely that’d be less than what the browser is bringing Google every…
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