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Why the US wants to force Google to sell Chrome
The Department of Justice suggested it should ‘divest Chrome’ and divest or submit to oversight of Android – seismic challenges for the tech giant
As my colleague Dan Milmo reported, the US Department of Justice “has proposed a far-reaching overhaul of Google’s structure and business practices, including the sale of its Chrome browser, in a bid to end its monopoly on internet search”. In an aggressively defensive blog post, Google’s chief legal officer, Kent Walker, called the justice department’s proposals “staggering”, “extreme”, and “unprecedented government overreach”. Even if Google succeeds in appealing the forced divestment of Chrome, it seems likely that the company will be compelled to end its at-least-$20bn deal with Apple to maintain its search engine as the default in the Safari browser.
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