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Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said

Google will have to break up its business and sell Chrome, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a court said it illegally abused it monopoly on search.

Google will have to break up its business, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a federal judge ruled last year that the company illegally abused a monopoly over the search industry. The Justice Department also kept a Biden-era proposal that seeks to ban Google from paying companies like Apple, other smartphone manufacturers and Mozilla to make its search engine the default on their phones and browsers. In the earlier one it filed in December, the company said that the Justice Department's original remedies went "overboard" and that they reflected an "interventionist agenda" that "goes far beyond what the Court's decision is actually about — [its] agreements with partners to distribute search."

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