'Google will have to sell its Chrome browser', know why the US Justice Department gave strict orders?
Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years.
Google Chrome News In Hindi: Alphabet's Google is in trouble as US regulators have now asked it to sell its Chrome browser. US prosecutors argued on Wednesday that the tech giant should share data and search results with competitors and take a number of other measures to end its monopoly on Internet search.
Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, making it subject to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled that the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising. Google controls about 90 percent of the online search market. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
Google is disrupting the market
“Google's unlawful conduct has deprived competitors not only of critical distribution channels, but also of distribution partners who otherwise would have been able to enter these markets in new and innovative ways,” the US Justice Department said in a document filed with the court. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
Court papers filed on Wednesday night detail the outline of how the US wants to end Google's monopoly. Google at the time called these proposals revolutionary and said they would harm American consumers and businesses and shake American competitiveness in AI. The company has said that it will appeal. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
Strong stance against Google
The DOJ's demands are broad, including barring Google from re-entering the browser market for five years and forcing Google to sell its Android mobile operating system if other measures fail to restore competition. The DOJ has also requested Google be banned from purchasing or investing in any search rival, query-based artificial intelligence products or advertising technology.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states want U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to end exclusive agreements under which Google pays billions of dollars annually to Apple and other device vendors to run its search engine by default on their tablets and smartphones. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
Losses to Google
In addition to seeking to control the Chrome spinoff and Android software, the Justice Department wants a judge to ban Google from striking billion-dollar deals to lock its flagship search engine as the default option on Apple's iPhone and other devices. . It would also restrict Google from promoting its own services, such as YouTube or its recently launched artificial intelligence platform, Gemini. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
Regulators also want Google to license search index data collected from people's queries to its rivals, giving them a better chance to compete with the tech giant. On the commercial side of its search engine, Google will need to provide greater transparency about how it sets the prices it pays advertisers to be listed near the top of certain targeted search results. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly)
If these measures are implemented, they risk having an adverse impact on businesses that are expected to generate revenues of more than US$300 billion this year.
Google will get a chance to present its proposals in December. Mehta has scheduled a hearing on the motions for April, though President-elect Donald Trump and the DOJ's next antitrust chief could intervene and change their stance on the case. If Mehta accepts the government's recommendations, Google will be forced to sell its 16-year-old Chrome browser within six months of the final decision. (Google must sell Chrome browser to end search monopoly) But the company will certainly appeal against any sentence, potentially prolonging the legal battle that has lasted more than four years.(Agency)
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