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Google has said it plans to appeal, and that its search engine has won users through its quality | (Photo: Shutterstock)4 min read Last
Updated : Oct 09 2024 | 11:02 AM IST
The US said on Tuesday it may ask a judge to force Alphabet's Google to divest parts of its
business, such as its Chrome browser and Android operating system, that it says are used to maintain an illegal monopoly in online
The Justice Department's proposed remedies have the potential to reshape how Americans find information on the internet while shrinking
requires not only ending Google's control of distribution today, but also ensuring Google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow," the
including Apple and other device manufacturers to ensure that its search engine remained the default on smartphones and browsers, keeping
"go far beyond the specific legal issues in this case." Google maintains that its search engine has won users with its quality, adding that
fourth-largest company with a market capitalization of over $2 trillion, Alphabet is under mounting legal pressure from competitors and
antitrust authorities.
A US judge ruled on Monday in a separate case that Google must open up its lucrative app store, Play, to greater
competition, including making Android apps available from rival sources
prevent Google's dominance from extending into AI, the Justice Department said it may seek to make available to rivals the indexes, data and
entering agreements that limit other AI competitors' access to web content and letting websites opt out of Google using their content to
its thumb on the scale of this vital industry 'skewing investment, distorting incentives, hobbling emerging business models' all at
proposal with the court by Nov
proposals to break up Google had previously garnered support from Google's smaller competitors such as reviews site Yelp and rival search
Yelp also wants Google to be prohibited from giving preference to Google's local business pages in search results.(Only the headline and
picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated
feed.)First Published: Oct 09 2024 | 9:05 AMIST
