US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android

236780 Google Antitrust Trial Custom Art Cvirginia 0000 4.0.png


Photo illustration of a gavel casting a shadow over the Google logo
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge

The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg.

Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for competition to grow.

Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Another requirement would say it has to share more information with advertisers and that it “give them more control…

Continue reading…

This post was originally published on this site