DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
Divesting Android is still on the table.
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The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition to the online search market, and it left the door open to requiring the company to spin out Android, too.
Haven't been following this drama, this doesn't sound fair to Google (not that I care or like the company) as there are other search engines and browsers and mobile operating systems.
I think the issue is that Google owns the browser and the search engine and has such market dominance that it can break web standards at will because it’s not like you’re not using chrome right? Right!?
The saddest thing about all the antitrust stuff is that Firefox gets something like 75% of its revenue from Google paying it to default to it, so by making things less monopolistic, they might unintentionally be killing Firefox, the only other major contender to chrome.