The Justice Department is considering asking the court to break up Google. This comes after an earlier ruling on Google’s abusive monopoly with its search engine.
Google would have built an unlawful monopoly around its search engine, according to a U.S. judge. In response to the August ruling, Justice Department officials deliberated on what measures to ask a federal judge to issue an injunction against the search giant. One such proposal was to break up Google, such as the Chrome browser or the Android operating system. Now the U.S. Department of Justice is considering a request for the breakup of Google.
Google split
Following an August ruling on the unlawful monopoly Google has been building, the U.S. Department of Justice is now considering asking the court to break up Google. The Department speaks of “structural remedies,” by which it actually refers to the breakup of Google. More specifically, this means disconnecting Play, Android and Google Chrome from Google, preventing the tech giant from using them to put Google Search ahead of other rivals.
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In addition, the Justice Department also talks about other remedies, including opening up Google Search to competitors through an API. Moreover, they also disagree with Google’s collaborations with Apple, for example, through which the company ensures that Google Search is the default search engine on Apple products.
These are only proposals that the ministry is currently considering, but in November they plan to come up with final measures. Only then will the courts judge whether or not these measures will be implemented.