The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

The US Department of Justice wants to sell Google its Chrome browser as part of the final treatment proposal in a case of combating monopoly.

The proposal, which was presented on Friday afternoon, says that Google must “immediately strip the vineyard and completely, along with any necessary assets or services to complete the successful disposal process, to the buyer approved by the prosecutors according to their own appreciation, taking into account the conditions approved by the court and the prosecutors.” It will also require Google to stop pushing the partners for the preferential treatment of its search engine.

The Ministry of Justice also calls for Google to provide a pre -notification of any joint venture, cooperation or new partnership with any company competing with Google in searching or in text advertisements. However, the company no longer must strip its investments in artificial intelligence, which was part of a preliminary set of recommendations issued by the prosecutors last November. The company will remain required to notify in advance of future artificial intelligence investments.

“Through its huge size and unrestricted strength, Google has robbed consumers and companies with the basic promise due to the public – their right to choose from competing services,” the statement of the Ministry of Justice accompanying the deposit claims. “Google’s illegal behavior has created an economically Gallery, which spoils the chaos on the market to ensure that – it does not matter what happens – GoGle always wins.”

The Ministry of Justice has officially filed its case against Google again in 2020, the most important issue to combat technological monopoly since the Battle of the Ministry of Justice years ago against Microsoft in the 1990s. The lawsuit claimed that Google has used anti -competition tactics to protect the research and contracting dominance that guarantees it to be the virtual search engine on web browsers and smartphones. Due to the search for the research, the lawsuit claimed, Google can adjust the auction system through which you sell ads, increase advertisers, and enjoy more revenues.

Google has argued that its tremendous success in the research – contains a share of approximately 90 percent in the American market – from the company that offers the best search technology. It also says consumers are easily able to change their virtual search engine, and that Google is facing competition from Microsoft and others.

“The full proposals of the Ministry of Justice continue to bypass the court’s decision, and it will harm US US consumers, economics, and national security,” Google spokesman Peter Shotfelles said in an e -mail statement.

The case went to trial in 2023, and in August 2024, the American boycott judge in Colombia, Amit Mihit, spent that Google maintained an illegal monopoly, both in public research and text advertisements for public research.

A lot of judgment is focused on Google contracts with hardware makers and browser partners, which use Google as a virtual search technique. According to the rule of Mihata, about 70 percent of search inquiries in the United States occurs through the gates where Google is the virtual search engine. Mehta said that Google and then share revenues with these partners, and paid billions of dollars to them, which leads to the failure to implement the younger research competitors who cannot compete with these contracts.