US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
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The Department of Justice really, really wants Google to sell Chrome.
My big question coming into this remedies trial was how serious the government was about making Google divest Chrome. It’s a swing, and seemed like maybe a negotiating tactic. But in opening arguments it became clear that getting Chrome out of Google is very much part of the goal. So far, judge Amit Mehta seems skeptical of the idea, but Jonathan Sallet, a lawyer representing the states, argued that something has to be done with maybe the most-used app on the planet:
“This kind of asset — 4 billion users — does not come up very often for potential companies to acquire.”
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