The US Ministry of Justice wants Google To sell his Chrome browser As part of his final remedy in A Landliktechtrecht.
The proposal, which was submitted on Friday afternoon, states that Google “Chrome has to sell immediately and completely, together with all assets or services that are necessary to successfully sell the sale, to a buyer approved by the plaintiffs at their own discretion, subject to the conditions that the court and the plaintiff approved.” In addition, Google would no longer pay the payment of partners for the preferred treatment of his search engine.
The doj also demands that Google notifies before a prior notification of new joint venture, cooperation or partnership with every company that competes with Google in search or in search text ads. However, the company no longer has to sell its artificial intelligent interest rates, which was part of a first recommendations from the plaintiffs last November. The company would still have to present the prior notification of future AI investments.
“Due to its sheer size and unrestricted power, Google has robbed Consumers and companies of a fundamental promise that was due to the public – to choose their right to choose between competing services,” accompanied the DOJ declaration, which accompanies the applications for claims. “The illegal behavior of Google has created an economic Goliath that devastates the market to ensure that – no matter what happens – that Google always wins.”
The DOJ officially brought its case against Google in 2020, the most important tech cartel case since the Doj struggle for years in the 1990s. In the lawsuit, it was claimed that Google protects its search dominance and forge contracts with competitive tactics that ensure that it acts the standard search engine in web browsers and smartphones. Due to your search for the search, Google can use the auction system through which it sells advertisements and increase, adapt and achieve the prices for advertisers.
Google has argued that the overwhelming success in the search -it has a share of almost 90 percent in the US market -that comes from the company and offers the best search technology. It also means that consumers are easy to change their standard search engine and that Google can compete from Microsoft and others.
The case Went to court in 2023And in August 2024, the US district judge decided for the Columbia district, Amit Mehta that Google has retained an illegal monopolyBoth in general and in general search text ads.
Much of the judgment focused on the contracts that Google has with device manufacturers and browser partners who use Google as the standard search technology. According to Mehta’s judgment, around 70 percent of search queries in the United States are created via portals in which Google is the standard search engine. Google then shares the income with these partners and pays them billions of dollars, which no longer compete with smaller search competitors who cannot compete with these contracts, said Mehta.
Last November, government lawyers submitted a detailed plan At Mehta, which contained a number of recommendations to best loosen Google’s stronghold on the US search market. These recommendations included this Google sells chrome immediatelyits popular web browser; possibly sold Android; End his search partnership with Apple, in which Apple receives billions of dollars every year so that his Safari browser withstands Google search by default. And give competitors access to Google’s data, both for the search and for ads: “This would otherwise offer Google a continuous advantage from the exclusion behavior.”
