Making Google divest itself from Chrome and Android won't significantly reduce Google's share of the market for general search services, it will just harm consumers. The DOJ's antitrust crusade against the tech giant began in October 2020 when, invoking ...

By Deborah Mary Sophia, Akash Sriram, Kenrick Cai (Reuters) -Efforts by U.S. antitrust regulators to break up Alphabet by forcing a sale of its Google Chrome browser and other proposals to limit its search dominance are likely to run into legal challenges on grounds the remedies are extreme.

The Justice Department says Google will need to sell Chrome to end its monopoly on online search. Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures — including possibly selling Android — to end its monopoly on online search,

Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures - including possibly selling Android - to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday.

The Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August that the company holds a monopoly in the search market. Chrome, which Google launched in 2008,