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Google Comes up With Possible Solutions for Search Monopoly

The tech giant filed counter-proposals to avoid breaking up the company after a judge ruled that Google has a monopoly with its search engine.

The proposals follow an earlier ruling from August. In a case brought by the US Department of Justice, the judge ruled that Google has a monopoly with its search engine. Justice then asked to possibly let Google split up and sell Chrome or Android, for example.

That’s what Google and its parent company, Alphabet, now want to avoid, and it’s coming up with counterproposals. The company proposes to relax the agreements with smartphone manufacturers in a twelve-page document.

For example, Google currently has deals with Samsung and Apple to set Google as the default search engine. It wants to continue making those deals but with the option to assign different default search engines to other platforms and browsing modes.

The company also proposes not to make agreements linking the licenses for three years for Chrome, Search and the Android app store.

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