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According to statements from the Department of Justice, Google may be forced into breaking up and selling off its business assets.
Two months after a federal judge found Google to be in violation of US antitrust law, The Verge reports that DOJ lawyers are still mulling over exactly what should be done about it in terms of regulatory action. But some of the options initially put forward are drastic, including the possibility of forcing Google to sell or otherwise divest itself of the Chrome browser, the Android mobile operating system, or its Google Play default app store.
These steps would be so massive that it'd be the biggest antitrust action in the United States since the breakup of the AT&T/Bell telephone monopoly in the 1980s. Any one of those changes would send shockwaves through the tech world as Google's Chrome is currently the number one browser in market share by a huge margin and ditto for Android on mobile platforms.
Effectively kicking Google out of these areas would spur enormous worldwide competition, both from its gigantic tech rivals (like Microsoft and Apple) and from smaller players who hope to gain ground and establish themselves in the power vacuum left behind.
One of the immediate actions is that Google will be
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