DOJ Still Wants Sundar Pichai-Led Google To Sell Chrome And Tweak Android Business Model; Company Reacts
In August 2024, search engine giant Google lost an antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that ruled that stated “Google is a monopolist.” Judge Amit Meta quipped, “And it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”
The Sundar Pichai-led company pays rival Apple a staggering $20 billion annually to keep itself as the default search engine. The DOJ later directed Google to chop off Chrome and sell off as a remedial measure. Google Chrome currently dominates the market with near 90 percent market share in the search engine market share globally. The number exceeds 90% if mobile devices are solely accounted for. Doubling down on its previous decree, the DOJ is persuading Google to sell off its most popular browser. In a revised proposal filed by federal judge Amit Mehta, the DOJ remarked, “Google must divest the Chrome browser… to provide an opportunity for a new rival to operate a significant gateway to search the internet.”
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In the latest filing, the DOJ labeled the Alphabet subsidiary “an economic goliath that has denied users of a basic American value—the ability to choose in the marketplace.”
Per the Verge, a Google spokesperson stated that the revised DOJ proposal is “miles beyond the Court’s decision and would harm America’s consumers, economy and national security.”
Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing https://t.co/DgqQniBUIB #Apple
— AppleInsider (@appleinsider) March 8, 2025
US asks Google to sell Chrome, end search engine monopolyhttps://t.co/5vPwE6dhLo
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) March 10, 2025
America’s Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome https://t.co/yWqzTDxrTW
— Slashdot (@slashdot) March 9, 2025
Trump’s DOJ still says Google should be broken up https://t.co/nBeuN18Wub
— The Verge (@verge) March 8, 2025
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Cover: Patrick Gawande / Mashable India
