DOJ Proposes Forcing Google To Sell Chrome Web Browser

If approved, the penalties could change how millions of Americans search for information and possibly disrupt Google's services.

The Department of Justice formally proposed a partial breakup of Google.

The agency is urging a federal judge to force the tech giant to sell it’s Chrome web browser.

That request comes after a historic ruling this year discovered that Google had violated U.S. antitrust law with its search business.

The department’s request comes with the most significant antitrust penalties for a tech giant in a generation, targeting not only Google’s illegal monopoly in search but also its growing ambitions in artificial intelligence.

If approved, the penalties could change how millions of Americans search for information and possibly disrupt Google’s services.

Google has promised to appeal.