The Department of Justice (DOJ) is expected to request a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell its Chrome internet browser, which the DOJ claims has been used to maintain an illegal monopoly on online searches, according to reports.
A federal judge ruled in August that Google had built an illegal monopoly over internet searches, more than 90% of which are processed through the search engine giant.
Bloomberg News reported on Monday that not only will the DOJ ask the judge who ruled against Google for illegally monopolizing the search market to require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, but it will also ask a judge to force the internet giant to sell off its popular Chrome internet browser.
“The DOJ continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, vice president of Google Regulatory Affairs, said in a …