{"id":11261,"date":"2025-03-07T23:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doj-reinforces-demand-to-break-up-googles-search-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:40:02","slug":"doj-reinforces-demand-to-break-up-googles-search-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doj-reinforces-demand-to-break-up-googles-search-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google\u2019s Search Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration\u2019s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/technology\/google-search-chrome-doj.html\" title=\"\">demand that a court break up<\/a> the search giant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The request followed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/05\/technology\/google-antitrust-ruling.html\" title=\"\">a landmark ruling<\/a> last year by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/02\/business\/amit-mehta-google-antitrust.html\" title=\"\">Judge Amit P. Mehta<\/a> of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/26\/technology\/google-apple-search-spotlight.html\" title=\"\">paying<\/a> web browsers and smartphone manufacturers to feature its search engine. The judge is scheduled to hear arguments on proposed solutions from both the government and Google in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the Biden administration last year, the Justice Department and a group of states <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/technology\/google-search-chrome-doj.html\" title=\"\">asked<\/a> Judge Mehta in a preliminary filing to force Google to sell its popular web browser, Chrome, among other remedies. The department\u2019s lawyers on Friday reiterated that demand, which could reshape internet competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGoogle\u2019s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that \u2014 no matter what occurs \u2014 Google always wins,\u201d the government said in its Friday filing. \u201cThe American people thus are forced to accept the unbridled demands and shifting, ideological preferences of an economic leviathan in return for a search engine the public may enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Google is also expected to file its own final proposal on Friday, most likely <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/technology\/google-antitrust-search-remedies.html\" title=\"\">maintaining its position<\/a> that the company shouldn\u2019t need to change much to address the judge\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Justice Department\u2019s decision to stick with its sweeping proposal to fundamentally alter the $2 trillion company\u2019s business is one of the first signals from the new administration on how it may approach tech regulation. The requests, the most significant remedies proposed in a tech monopoly case since the Justice Department asked to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/11\/technology\/microsoft-google-antitrust.html\" title=\"\">break up Microsoft in 2000<\/a>, could presage how Mr. Trump\u2019s appointees will handle <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/06\/technology\/google-microsoft-antitrust-cases.html\" title=\"\">a string of other antitrust cases<\/a> that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/business\/antitrust-case-tracker.html\" title=\"\">challenge the dominance<\/a> of tech behemoths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Justice Department has also sued Google over its dominance in advertising technology, a case awaiting a ruling, as well as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/technology\/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html\" title=\"\">Apple over claims<\/a> that its tightly knit system of devices and software makes it challenging for consumers to leave. A Federal Trade Commission <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/28\/technology\/ftc-lina-khan-meta.html\" title=\"\">case against Meta<\/a>, over claims that Meta snuffed out competition when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp, is scheduled to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/28\/technology\/ftc-lina-khan-meta.html\" title=\"\">go to trial<\/a> in April. The agency has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/26\/technology\/ftc-amazon.html\" title=\"\">sued Amazon<\/a>, accusing it of illegally protecting a monopoly in online retail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The tech industry is closely watching Mr. Trump\u2019s choices to lead those agencies as it tries to determine his approach to regulation. The antitrust cases against the tech giants stem from investigations that began during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/10\/technology\/trump-ftc-andrew-ferguson.html\" title=\"\">Andrew Ferguson, the new chairman of the F.T.C.<\/a>, has expressed concern about the tech giants\u2019 power as a gatekeeper to online discourse. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-gail-slater-antitrust-justice-department.html\" title=\"\">Gail Slater, Mr. Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division<\/a>, said during her Senate confirmation hearing that she was worried someone \u201ccan be disappeared from the internet quite easily when there are only two platforms providing news, for example, to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tech executives have visited Mar-a-Lago in recent months to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/14\/technology\/trump-tech-amazon-meta-openai.html\" title=\"\">court the president\u2019s favor<\/a>, and have donated millions of dollars to Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration. Chief executives including Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta sat behind Mr. Trump during his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first major test of the Trump administration\u2019s approach to concerns about Big Tech\u2019s power will be how it proceeds in the Google search case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/02\/technology\/google-antitrust-trial-closing-arguments.html\" title=\"\">10-week trial<\/a> in 2023, the government said Google locked out rivals by signing deals with Apple, Mozilla, Samsung and others to automatically appear as the search engine when users opened a smartphone or new tab in a web browser. Google paid $26.3 billion for those arrangements in 2021, according to evidence presented at the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Google argued that its deals had not broken the law, and that users chose its search engine because it was better at finding information than rivals like Microsoft\u2019s Bing or DuckDuckGo, which claims to offer its users more privacy than search engines that collect more information to target users with ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Judge Mehta ruled in August that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly, the Justice Department proposed last year that the company be forced to to sell Chrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government asked the court to stop Google from entering into paid agreements with Apple, Mozilla and smartphone makers to be the default search engine on smartphones and in browsers. The company should also allow rival search engines to display Google\u2019s results and have access to its data for a decade, the government said in its filing at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government had also said Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, should be forced to divest its stakes in any artificial intelligence products that could compete with search, a bid to stop the company from dominating the nascent technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Justice Department changed that portion of its request on Friday, saying instead that Google should have to notify federal and state officials before proceeding with investments in A.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government also said Google should have to make changes to the business practices of its Android smartphone operating system, eliminating an option that would have allowed the company to simply sell off Android. If the market did not become more competitive, the court could then order Google to sell Android, according to the new filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Google had urged Judge Mehta to take a narrower approach. It asked that it continue to be allowed to pay other companies to give its search engine prime placement in web browsers and on smartphones. But it said those agreements should be less restrictive than in the past and allow other search engines to compete for prime placement on phones and browsers. In addition, browser manufacturers like Apple and Mozilla should be allowed to change their default search engines at least every 12 months, the company said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Mehta is scheduled next month to preside over an almost two-week hearing to determine remedies in the case, which will feature testimony and arguments from lawyers for both sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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