Reuters:
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to outline on Tuesday what kind of actions Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google could be ordered to take to restore competition in online search, potentially including a breakup of the Big Tech company.
After a federal court in August ruled Google controls an illegal monopoly in online search, smaller rivals want the court to force Google to spin off its Chrome browser, or at least prohibit it from continuing to pay billions of dollars to make its search engine the default on devices such as Apple's iPhone.
The broad DOJ proposals are the next step in a landmark case that has the potential to reshape how Americans find information on the internet after a judge found Google, which processes 90% of U.S. internet searches, had built an illegal monopoly.
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