According to a US Justice Department (DOJ) court filing Google may have to sever parts of its search business into independent entities. And also, be required to share users’ search data with its competitors. This is a part of the proposed remedies to the company’s search dominance on the internet.
These remedies are part of the DOJ’s effort to obstruct Google’s search dominance and recreate the platform without its allegedly monopolistic practices.
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Google Search Dominance Under Scrutiny
In response to a 2020 lawsuit, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had unlawfully abused its monopoly power in the search industry.
The DOJ is now considering both “behavioral and structural remedies” to prevent Google from leveraging its other products—such as Chrome, Play, and Android—to bolster its search dominance and related products.
