The pressure on Google is increasing in the United States. The Department of Justice reiterated the demand for the sale of Chrome. It was stated that the company could proceed with its artificial intelligence investments with advance notice.

In the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reiterated its demand for Google to divest Chrome. The Department of Justice first suggested that Google should sell Chrome last year during the Biden administration. The Department remained loyal to this plan even during the second Trump administration. The DOJ announced that it had not changed the fundamental components of the initial offer, which included the divestiture of Chrome and the prohibition of payments to distribution partners related to search. Concerns were raised about the potential utilization of the company’s significant resources to dominate the field of artificial intelligence. However, the proposal did not call for Google to divest its investments in the field of artificial intelligence, including the billions of dollars it invested in Anthropic. It was indicated that prior information about artificial intelligence investments would be sufficient. Google, on the other hand, finds the DOJ’s recommendations excessive and opposes them. Google holds approximately 90% of the online search market.

ANTITRUST CASE AGAINST GOOGLE In a statement made by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was reported that attorneys general from the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the Eastern District of Virginia. The statement claimed that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary, and illegal methods to eliminate or significantly reduce any threat to its dominance in the industry in order to remove any threats to its dominance in the industry. The statement described Google’s acquisition of numerous digital advertising technology products as rendering competitors ineffective or eliminating them in the past 15 years, using its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products, and preventing the use of rival products. The statement indicated that this strengthened Google’s dominance in the industry and detailed the company’s anti-competitive behavior. The U.S. Department of Justice previously filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in 2020 for monopolizing search and search advertising.