It has been reported that US Justice Department officials have decided to request a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.
According to the news by Bloomberg based on unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, the ministry will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to take measures regarding artificial intelligence and the Android smartphone operating system. The US Justice Department’s antitrust officials will request a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser. In the US, federal judge Amit Mehta made an important decision in the field of internet technologies in August by ruling that Google had established an “illegal monopoly” in internet search and search advertising. In his decision, Judge Mehta said, “As a result of its detailed review of the witnesses and evidence, the court reached the following decision: Google is a monopoly and acted to protect this monopoly. This violates Article 2 of the Sherman Act.” ANTITTRUST” CASE AGAINST GOOGLE In a statement made by the US Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was announced that an “antitrust” lawsuit was filed against Google in the Eastern District Court for the District of Virginia with the attorneys general of the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia. In the statement, which stated that the company monopolized many digital advertising technology products, it was alleged that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary, and illegal methods to eliminate or seriously reduce any threats to its dominance in the sector. The statement, which explained that Google has neutralized or eliminated its ad technology competitors through acquisitions over the last 15 years, stated that the company used its dominance in the digital ad market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products and prevented the use of rival products. The statement stated that Google has thus strengthened its dominance in the sector and also included the content of the company’s anti-competitive behavior. The US Department of Justice also filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in 2020 for monopolizing search and search advertising.
