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I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts.

And how the tech are you?

It's time for the tech news for the week ending Friday, November 22nd, 2024.

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed proposals regarding what to do about Google.

And by what to do, I mean how best to address the issue of Google absolutely dominating web search, among other things.

So this is like an antitrust lawsuit proceeding.

So as expected, the suggestions the DOJ has are pretty extensive.

One really big one is that the DOJ says Google should stop paying out gobs of cash to other platforms in

order to make Google search the default search tool on those platforms. So Google literally spends

billions of dollars every year on this effort and pays out companies like Apple to use Google

search as the default on their various platforms,

whether that's iOS or whatever. And the DOJ argues that this has led to Google essentially

squashing competition and entrenching itself as the dominant web search provider. But the

proposal goes further and says Google should also sell off its Chrome browser entirely.

Google introduced Chrome back in September 2008, and since then, it has become the most popular web browser on the market.

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