Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Tuesday, November 19th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

We have an idea of how the DOJ wants to break up Google, and it seems to hinge a lot on selling the Chrome web browser.

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Sources are telling Bloomberg that DOJ antitrust officials are planning to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome,

also license search data, uncouple Android from search, and Google Play, all as part of their antitrust remedy package.

Quote, antitrust officials along with states that have joined the case, also plan to

recommend Wednesday that federal judge Amit Mehta imposed data licensing requirements, said the

people who asked not to be named discussing a confidential matter. The judge has set a two-week

hearing in April on what changes Google must make to remedy the illegal behavior and plans to

issue a final ruling by August

2025. The agency in the states have settled on recommending that Google be required to license

the results and data from its popular search engine and give websites more options to prevent

their content from being used by Google's artificial intelligence products, said the people.

Antitrust enforcers want the judge to order Google to

sell off Chrome, the most widely used browser worldwide, because it represents a key access point

through which many people use its search engine, the people said. Owning the world's most popular

web browser is key for Google's ads business. The company is able to see activity from

signed-in users and use that data to more effectively target

promotions, which generate the bulk of its revenue. Google has also been using Chrome to direct

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