Is Chrome officially for sale? In the USA, the ministry made an official request to the judge
US Department of Justice; He formally asked the judge to order the company to sell its Chrome browser, saying it had to share data and search results with rivals to end Alphabet’s Google’s monopoly on online search and that it had to take other measures, including selling Android.
“Google’s unlawful conduct has deprived its competitors not only of critical distribution channels but also of distribution partners that could enable competitors to enter these markets in new and innovative ways,” Justice Department and state antitrust officials said in a court filing Wednesday.
Justice Department officials’ recommendations include ending exclusive deals under which Google pays Apple and other device vendors billions of dollars a year to make it the default search engine on tablets and smartphones.
While Google said in a statement on Thursday that the proposals were surprising, Alphabet Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker said, “The Justice Department’s approach will harm American consumers, developers and small businesses and jeopardize the United States’ global economic and technological leadership at a time when it is needed most.” “It would lead to unprecedented overreach,” he said.
In the US, federal judge Amit Mehta set a date for a hearing on the proposals to be held in April; However, it is stated that the involvement of the newly elected President Donald Trump and the next antitrust head of the Department of Justice in the case may change the course of the case.
ANTITRUST CASE AGAINST GOOGLE
In the statement made by the US Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was reported that an “antitrust” lawsuit was filed against Google in the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia with the attorneys general of the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia.
In the statement, which stated that the company monopolized many digital advertising technology products, it was claimed that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary and illegal methods to eliminate or seriously reduce any threats to its dominance in the industry.
In the statement, it was stated that in the last 15 years, Google has neutralized or eliminated its advertising technology competitors through acquisitions, and that the company used its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products and prevented the use of rival products.
In the statement, it was stated that Google strengthened its dominance in the sector and the content of the company’s anti-competitive behavior was also included.
The US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for monopolizing search and search advertising in 2020.
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