The United States Department of Justice released a 23-page document calling for the breakup of Google, including Chrome sales and Android restrictions. This confirms information that puts Google on the ropes and could change the global technology landscape.

The sale of the Chrome browser is the biggest piece the DOJ wants to collect the most difficult antitrust case of the many that have been made against Google around the world and for various reasons. “The sale will permanently end Google’s control of this critical search hotspot and allow competing search engines access to the browser that is the gateway to the Internet for many users.”In the document, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice argue.

The Justice Department also wants Google “stop favoring your own search engine on android”. If the company doesn’t, the lawyers argue It should also be required to exit its mobile operating system. Other proposals, each more stringent, are for Google to aggregate search results separately and sell its click and query data to help rival search engines and AI startups.

Google reacts to the sale of Chrome

The Internet giant has openly expressed its frustration and displeasure with the Justice Department’s demand, which includes the sale of Chrome, which it qualifies as “wonderful proposal” according to A message from Kent Walker, General Counsel of Google and Alphabet, on the official blog:

“The Department of Justice had the opportunity to propose a solution related to the problem in this case: to search distribution agreements with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and wireless carriers. Instead, the Department of Justice decided to push a radical interventionist agenda this would harm Americans and America’s global technological leadership. The Justice Department’s extremely broad proposal goes far beyond the court’s ruling. “It would destroy a number of Google products (even outside of Search) that people love and find useful in their everyday lives.”.

Walker assures that Google has won the trust of consumers with the offer “the best search engine in the industry” and that separating it from the company would threaten Americans’ privacy by exposing Google technology, personal search requests and other sensitive information. It also adds that the cancellation of agreements with search engines would hurt other companies like Mozillawhich charges Google to use its search engine as the default.

Google has said it will present its own proposal to address antitrust and monopoly issues. It is expected to do so in December 2024. The truth is that it is not known what it would be like, we assume it as a kind of ‘self-regulation’ to respond not only to the DOJ, which also, but the decision of the court, where he was convicted of monopoly, for that it has used its dominant position in Internet search to dethrone competitors. Google plays it…