Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google must sell its Chrome browser and take other major steps to end its monopoly on internet searches, the US Justice Department and a group of states said in a filing on Wednesday.
Among the proposed measures for ending what a judge has already ruled was Google's illegal monopoly on general search services and search text advertising were selling its Android operating system and being barred for five years from owning or acquiring any investment or interest in any search or search text ad rival, distributor, or query-based AI product or ads technology.
"Google's financial entanglements with current or future rivals risk compromising the proposed remedy," the prosecutors said in the filing. "Investments in or acquisitions of potential rivals would stifle emerging competition or reduce their incentives to challenge Google."
Other proposed remedies include disallowing Google from cutting deals with manufacturers to set itself as the default search engine in devices, forcing Google to increase performance and price transparency to advertisers, ordering it to share data with rivals, and barring it from making exclusive deals that hurt rivals.
Alphabet did not immediately reply to MT Newswires' request for comment.
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