Google has responded to the proposals by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to the court. The company called the 23-page filing by the regulator a “radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.” The tech giants says that it will file its own proposals next month, and will make a broader case next year.
“DOJ had a chance to propose remedies related to the issue in this case: search distribution agreements with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone OEMs, and wireless carriers,” the company said in a statement.
“Instead, DOJ chose to push a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership. DOJ’s wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision. It would break a range of Google products — even beyond Search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives,” the company said in a statement.
DoJ’s approach will “harm American consumers”: Google
Google said that the DoJ’s approach will result in unprecedented government overreach that would harm American consumers, developers, and small businesses as well as jeopardise America’s global economic and technological leadership at precisely the moment it’s needed most.
The tech giant reiterated the court’s comments that “Google offers the industry’s highest quality search engine, which has earned Google the trust of hundreds of millions of daily users”, saying that it is still at the early stages of a long process and many of these demands are clearly far afield from what even the Court’s order contemplated.
What DoJ said in its 23-page filing
In its antitrust battle against Google, the US Justice Department has called for the tech giant to sell its Chrome web browser and face restrictions on its Android operating system. These proposed remedies, outlined in a 23-page filing on Wednesday (October 20), aim to curb Google’s dominance in the online search market.
A sale of Chrome “will permanently stop Google’s control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet,” Justice Department lawyers argued in their filing, reports said.
While not explicitly demanding the sale of Android, the filing suggests that the operating system could be subject to divestiture if Google continues anti-competitive practices.
