Google Blasts Chrome Sale as ‘Extreme’ Remedy at Odds With Law

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Blasts Chrome ***** as ‘Extreme’ Remedy at Odds With Law

Alphabet Inc.’s

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called a US Justice Department plan to force it to sell its web browser “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging a federal court judge to take caution lest he stifle innovation and future investment.

In a court filing late Friday,

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responded to the DOJ’s request and proposed its own remedy. The company said the proposed Chrome ***** doesn’t fit the company’s conduct that the judge found ******** — which involved exclusive contracts with browsers, smartphone manufacturers and telecom carriers.

“Extreme remedies are discouraged” by courts, the company said in its filing. The remedies for anticompetitive conduct “must be of the ‘same type or class’ as the violations,”

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said.

The Justice Department and a group of states last month asked Judge Amit Mehta to order

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to sell its Chrome web browser along with a bevy of other changes to the company’s business to improve competition in the online search market.

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said any remedy should allow competing browsers like

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.’s Safari “to have the freedom to do deals with whatever search engine they think is best for their users,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, the company’s vice president for regulatory affairs, wrote in a blog post. Mehta found it was unlawful for

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to make payments to Apple and others to be the default browser provider.

Mulholland said

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’s proposal would still allow for the company to split revenue with competing browsers but would also allow for multiple defaults on different platforms. It would let device makers to preload multiple search engines and not require them to include Chrome and

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search if they want to include other

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apps.

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’s filing Friday is its first official response since Mehta found earlier this year that it illegally monopolized online search and advertising markets. The company has said it plans to appeal, but can’t do so until after the case finishes.

“If DOJ felt that

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investing in Chrome, or our development of AI, or the way we crawl the web, or develop our algorithms, were at all anticompetitive, it could have filed those cases. It did not,” Mulholland wrote.

The judge has scheduled a proceeding in April to decide how to fix the dearth of competition in the industries

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has dominated and promised to have a final decision by August 2025.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment and referred to the agency’s earlier filings in the case.

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