From Investing.com, November 18:
DOJ to recommend Google sell off Chrome- Bloomberg
Investing.com-- The U.S. The Department of Justice plans to ask a judge to force Google owner Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its antitrust probe into the tech giant, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The department plans to ask Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia, who had earlier this year ruled Google had an illegal monopoly in the search engine market, to make the ruling, Bloomberg reported.
DOJ officials also plan to ask Mehta to impose data licensing requirements on Alphabet and to address its plans for artificial intelligence and the Android operating system, the report showed.
Chrome represents a key point of focus for antitrust officials because it usually serves as a means of access for many to Google’s search. The browser is by far the most-used in the world, with data from web traffic analyst Statcounter showing Chrome with a 66.65% market share as of October 2024....
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Even if the government's suggestion is agreed to by the judge it may not be enough.
From October's "US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case" (GOOG)":
I would like YouTube please, there's an entire non-literate addressable market for Climateer Investing to conquer.
And September's "What Is an Effective Remedy in the Google Search Case? (GOOG; EVIL)":
Dismemberment.
And then, when you're done with the officers and directors...
Okay, just kidding. The most logical remedy is to regulate search as a public utility. And if they push back against that, dismemberment.
I have to stop reading medieval history before going to sleep at night.
How's about we rip the company's index from the still-living beast and...
That's it, from now on it's Pollyanna with her 'glad game.' And Candide. And maybe Leibniz.
We've mellowed since 2019's "In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy"
Don't regulate FB
Dismember it
Then disembowel it.
Then kill it.......The intro is a variation on old-school European torture-execution, "Hanged, drawn, and quartered."
I used to get nightmares reading medieval history.