Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searching.
Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, US prosecutors have argued to a judge. Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, subjecting it to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising.
Google controls about 90% of the online search market. “Google’s unlawful behaviour has deprived rivals not only of critical distribution channels but also distribution partners who could otherwise enable entry into these markets by competitors in new and innovative ways,” the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a court filing.
Google will have a chance to present its own proposals in December. Mehta has scheduled a trial on the proposals for April, though president-elect Donald Trump and the DoJ’s next antitrust head could step in and change course in the case.
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