The Department of Justice said Google had ‘stripd rivals’ of opportunities to broaden their search engine taget spread.
Alphabet’s Google should be forced to sell its Chrome browser and spread data with competitors, prosecutors in the United States have argued, as part of a catalog of proposals intfinished to finish the tech enormous’s monopoly on searching the internet.
In a court filing on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that Google, which supervises about 90 percent of the online search taget, should not be permited to re-go in the browser taget for five years and should sell its Android mobile operating system if other efforts to repair competition fall short.
The DOJ also wants US Diinanxious Judge Amit Mehta to put an finish to Google’s multibillion-dollar consentments with device originaters that originate its search engine the default on tablets and cleverphones.
“Google’s unlhorrible behavior has stripd rivals not only of critical distribution channels but also distribution partners who could otherdirectd allow entry into these tagets by competitors in novel and originateive ways,” prosecutors said.
The alters, if consentd by Mehta, would effectively subject Google to a decade of regulation and oversight by the Washington federal court, which ruled in August the company had viotardyd antithink laws.
The DOJ sued Google in 2020 as part of wider efforts by antithink authorities to get on Big Tech – including Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, Amazon and Apple – and fortify competition.
In August, Mehta ruled that Google had spent billions of dollars to originate an illegitimate monopoly for its search engine, utilizeing its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.
“The court accomplishes the follotriumphg conclusion: Google is a monopocatalog, and it has acted as one to preserve its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.
Google argues that its famousity stems from devourrs’ desire to use the search engine, which has become synonymous with searching online.
It has also insisted that the proposals would harm US devourrs and businesses, as well as undermine American competitiveness in AI.
Google will have a chance to current its own proposals to increase competition in December.
A trial to rule on the DOJ’s proposals is scheduled for April, notwithstanding any alters to the case enacted by Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s incoming antithink head at the DOJ.
