At the end of the Biden Administration the U.S. Justice Department submitted its proposed remedy for its antitrust case against Google. The submission is in response to Federal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling that Google had used its position as the world’s most popular search engine to entrench its monopoly. Amongst Google’s “crimes” were paying Apple and other device manufacturers to have Google installed as the default browser on their devices. The Justice Department’s case assumes that manufactures would have no incentive besides getting a payment from Google to install the world’s most popular browser.
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