The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a court order to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.

It has been reported that officials from the U.S. Department of Justice have decided to request a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.

The Department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to take measures related to artificial intelligence and the Android smartphone operating system. Antitrust officials from the U.S. Department of Justice will request a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.

IT WAS RULED THAT GOOGLE CREATED AN ILLEGAL MONOPOLY

In August, federal judge Amit Mehta made a significant ruling in the field of internet technologies by determining that Google had created an "illegal monopoly" in internet search and search advertising.

In his ruling, Judge Mehta stated, "The court reached the following conclusion after a detailed examination of witnesses and evidence: Google is a monopoly and has acted to maintain this monopoly. This violates Section 2 of the Sherman Act."

ANTITRUST LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE

In a statement made by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was reported that attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia had filed an "antitrust" lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The statement indicated that the company had monopolized numerous digital advertising technology products and claimed that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary, and illegal methods to eliminate or significantly reduce any threats to its dominance in the industry.

GOOGLE HAS ACQUIRED ITS COMPETITORS

The statement described how Google has neutralized or eliminated its advertising technology competitors through acquisitions over the past 15 years, stating that the company used its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products and to prevent the use of competing products.

The statement noted that this has reinforced Google's dominance in the industry and included details about the company's anti-competitive behavior. The U.S. Department of Justice had also filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in 2020 for monopolizing search and search advertising.