Google to Sell Chrome AND Be Banned From Re-Entering the Browser Market for Five Years, Recommends US Department of Justice
- “a judge be asked to enforce Google’s sale of Chrome” ⤴️
- “the filing made to a Washington federal court also outlines that, “following its divestiture of Chrome [Google] may not reenter the browser market for five years” (via The Guardian).” ⤴️
- “prohibited from “acquiring any interests in search rivals, potential entrants, and rival search or search ads-related AI products,” and that it must let go of any it already holds in its clutch.” ⤴️
- “a halt to all “anticompetitive payments to distributors, including Apple” that are made to ensure Google is the default search engine on various companies’ devices.” ⤴️
- “recommends that Google offer “data crawling rights” to parties such as content creators, so that they can choose to opt-out of, say, Google using its work to train its Large Language Model AI.” ⤴️
- “the result of a major court ruling back in August that found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its monopoly over online search” ⤴️
- “Android is still part of the DoJ’s contingency plan.” ⤴️
- “The filing identifies Android as “a critical platform on which search competitors rely” ⤴️
- “either Google also divests itself of Android alongside Chrome or, two, selling off Android becomes a last resort depending on if earlier efforts ultimately fail to reign in Google’s monopoly.” ⤴️
- “In a recent blog post, Google framed the DOJ’s proposed remedies as a “radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership."" ⤴️
- “obvious point of historical comparison would be United States v. Microsoft Corp. back in 2001; the DoJ tried to split Microsoft up due to its hold over the web browser market on Windows machines, though this case ultimately resulted in a settlement.” ⤴️
- “a judge be asked to enforce Google’s sale of Chrome” ⤴️
- “the filing made to a Washington federal court also outlines that, “following its divestiture of Chrome [Google] may not reenter the browser market for five years” (via The Guardian).” ⤴️
- “prohibited from “acquiring any interests in search rivals, potential entrants, and rival search or search ads-related AI products,” and that it must let go of any it already holds in its clutch.” ⤴️
- “a halt to all “anticompetitive payments to distributors, including Apple” that are made to ensure Google is the default search engine on various companies’ devices.” ⤴️
- “recommends that Google offer “data crawling rights” to parties such as content creators, so that they can choose to opt-out of, say, Google using its work to train its Large Language Model AI.” ⤴️
- “the result of a major court ruling back in August that found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its monopoly over online search” ⤴️
- “Android is still part of the DoJ’s contingency plan.” ⤴️
- “The filing identifies Android as “a critical platform on which search competitors rely” ⤴️
- “either Google also divests itself of Android alongside Chrome or, two, selling off Android becomes a last resort depending on if earlier efforts ultimately fail to reign in Google’s monopoly.” ⤴️
- “In a recent blog post, Google framed the DOJ’s proposed remedies as a “radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership."" ⤴️
- “obvious point of historical comparison would be United States v. Microsoft Corp. back in 2001; the DoJ tried to split Microsoft up due to its hold over the web browser market on Windows machines, though this case ultimately resulted in a settlement.” ⤴️