Breaking down the DOJ’s plan to end Google’s search monopoly

The DOJ says Google should be forced to sell Chrome because, as the largest browser by market share, it serves as a critical access point for search.

Selling Chrome

The government says Google should be barred from preferencing its search engine on other services, such as making Google Search mandatory on Android or degrading the quality of competing products there.

Avoiding self-preferencing

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The DOJ wants Google to syndicate its search results, ranking signals, and query data to competitors at a marginal cost for 10 years.

Selling precious data

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Google would be banned from entering revenue-share agreements to distribute its search product or offer anything of value to Apple, Android phone-makers, or browser companies for any kind of default preinstallation or preferred placement.

Goodbye to exclusionary search deals

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