For Google, the fight against the Group’s destruction goes into the hot phase.
The US Ministry of Justice calls for the division of the business to the Chrome web browser. The Internet group defends itself against it.
A US judge ruled last August that Google has a monopoly in the web search-and defended it with unfair means against competition. In a follow -up process in Washington, the consequences should be about the consequences from Monday (3:30 p.m. CEST).
The Ministry of Justice also calls for further requirements for Google, such as the obligation to provide some data from the search engine competitors. In addition, deals should end in which Google should other browser developers such as Firefox And Apple pays a lot of money to ensure that the group’s search engine is preset as the standard.
The government also wants to split off the most used mobile operating system Android from Google as a possible requirement for later on the table. In addition to the parties to the dispute, representatives of competing search engines such as Microsoft’s Bing and Duckduckgo should have their say in the procedure.
Google is already planning a calling
At the same time, the process should only be an intermediate step: Google already announced that it will appeal afterwards. However, the Internet group must first wait for the decision to make the judgment from the monopoly process.
Until then, Google counters that the government’s demands would slow down consumers and innovations. They only aimed to drive more users to competing search engines – which are demonstrably weaker than those of Google. The verdict that Google had illegally obtained the monopoly position – but only tried to protect it illegally, emphasizes the group.
A forced separation of Chrome will have “extremely” serious consequences, warns Google. However, the group argues that such a step has nothing to do with the behavior that is classified as competition. As a result of the monopoly judgment, Google offers to grant browser providers more flexibility in search engine agreements.
Pressure on Google increases
Just last week, Google had to accept another flap in court: A judge in the state of Virginia decided that the group had achieved a monopoly position in platforms to place online advertising through unfair competition. Here, too, a second process for punitive measures follows later.
The alphabet share listed on the NASDAQ in the meantime falls by $ 2.47 percent to $ 149.57.
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