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DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
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>sell Chrome to open search monopoly
>Chrome isn't a search engine but a web browser
Yeah, Google pays other companies lots of money to have its search engine enabled by default. That's what the lawsuit argued, so I'm not sure how separating chrome from the company will change that...
It has massive market share and uses Google search by default. If another company owns the browser, they'll likely change the default search engine, and since almost nobody changes the defaults, it'll eat away at Google's marketshare.
For example, Microsoft would be pretty interested in buying it to promote Bing search. Edge is already based on Chromium, so they could reuse their existing teams to offer support for it.