The feds are also weighing “less severe” options, such as requiring Google to share data with rival search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Microsoft’s Bing.
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a push for a historic breakup of Google ’s business empire after a federal judge ruled the Big Tech giantDOJ attorneys could ask Judge Amit Mehta to order Google to sell portions of its business – with potential candidates for divestment including its Android operating system, Chrome web browser and advertising platform AdWords,
Google’s artificial intelligence products to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage. A proposal to break up Google would be the first of its kind by the feds in more than 20 years. The DOJ won a major antitrust case against Microsoft but later abandoned a push to break up the company in 2001.
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