The US Department of Justice wants to sell Google as part of its final therapeutic offer in a prominent anti -monopoly case.
The proposal, which is registered on Friday afternoon, says that Google “must transfer Chrome quickly and fully with any assets or services needed to successfully complete, to a buyer approved by the plaintiffs, given the conditions that the court and the plaintiffs are approved.” It also requires Google to prevent partners from paying for preferential treatment of the search engine.
The Ministry of Justice also calls for Google to provide prior information on any joint venture, cooperation or cooperation with any company that competes with Google in search or in search text ads. However, the company no longer has to divert its artificial intelligence investments, part of the initial set of recommendations issued by the plaintiffs in November. The company is still required to provide previous information on future investment of artificial intelligence.
Using its unlimited size and power, Google has stolen consumers and jobs a fundamental promise that is owned to the public – stolen their choice among competing services. “” The illegal behavior of Google has created an economic flower, which is destroyed through the market to ensure – no matter what happens – Google always wins. “
The Ministry of Justice formally obtained its case against Google in 2020, the most important anti -monopoly case of the Foreign Minister’s years against Microsoft in the 1990s. The petition claimed that Google uses anti -competitive tactics to protect its search engine and search for its search engine. The alleged petition because of its search, Google can adjust the auction system through which it sells ads, raise the price of advertisers and earn more.
Google has argued that its excessive success in search – almost 90 % of the US market share – offers the best search technology from the company. It also says consumers are easily able to change their default search engine, and Google is competing from Microsoft and others.
“DOJ’s extensive proposals continue to go beyond the court’s decision and harm US consumer, economy and national security,” Google spokesman Peter Schutfls said in a statement.
The case was tried in 2023, and in August 2024 US district judge for Columbia district, Amit Mehta, ruled that Google had maintained illegal monopoly, whether in public search or in public search advertising.
Much of the concentration focused on contracts that Google has with device makers and browser partners, which use Google as their default search technology. According to Mehta, about 70 % of search inquiries in the United States occurs through portals where Google is the default search engine. Mahta said, Google then share revenue with those partners and pays them billions of dollars, which distinguishes smaller search competitors that cannot compete with those contracts.
