The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google GOOGL.O to sell off its Chrome internet browser, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.
The DOJ will also ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, the report said.
The DOJ declined to comment. Google, in a statement from Lee-Anne Mulholland, Vice President, Google Regulatory Affairs, said the DOJ is pushing a “radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case,” and would harm consumers.
If it happens, who would buy it? Amazon, M$? Much good that would do, just shift power from one giant to the next. Maybe if IBM bought it and ran it to the ground after a few years…