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Breaking Up Google Will Be Hard, Warn Scholars

Government lawyers told a court yesterday that they were considering a Google breakup, among possible remedies for the Alphabet unit’s monopoly on internet search. Most of the 10-page text discussed restrictions on Google business practices that the government might seek, in its final remedy proposal to U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the District of Columbia’s federal court on Nov. 20. Judge Mehta concluded in August that Google monopolized search by paying phone makers and web browser developers to make Google their default search engine. Read More...

Government lawyers told a court yesterday that they were considering a Google breakup, among possible remedies for the Alphabet unit’s monopoly on internet search. Most of the 10-page text discussed restrictions on Google business practices that the government might seek, in its final remedy proposal to U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the District of Columbia’s federal court on Nov. 20. Judge Mehta concluded in August that Google monopolized search by paying phone makers and web browser developers to make Google their default search engine.

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