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Google has illegal monopoly over internet search, US judge rules
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So, how are they getting rid of the Monopoly?
The right move would be to break them up. Separate all the business units that collude to abuse their monopoly power.
Knowing the recent history of US anti-trust, it'll drag on for years and the government will settle for a money judgement and an agreement to stop doing things that they don't need to do anymore.
I think the usual move when it's a somewhat natural monopoly, is to take action against some anti-competitive behaviour. So probably google won't be able to ask you to install chrome, and maybe something like search history and personalization would be forced to use SSOs other than googles? If they get more serious maybe there'll be a crackdown on how google prioritizes results.