DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports
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The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet's Google to sell off its Chrome internet browser, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      94·
      1 month ago

      Google is such a good company, one the best. Everybody says it. I was just talking to John Google the other day, and he tells me, no really he did, he tells me we’re going to do amazing things together. Oogles of googles. That’s what we’ll sell. Everybody will know about google by this time next year. It’s true.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        You forgot the unrelated rant in the middle about toasters being too dark these days or some shit.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          9·
          1 month ago

          He also didn’t say his name three times in 10 seconds. Then sort of fade off and vaguely look off into the distance.

          They said to me Donald, Donald, they said Donald, they do amazing things, real bigly things, my father, my father, said to me Donald, they do big things Google land. Really good things… Yeah… Big things…

        • xorEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          And a series of words that sounds kinda like a complex sentence when you listen to it, but actually means nothing whatsoever

          And he says to me… a very smart guy, Mark, he’s really doing… he’s really got to show… when he does things he really does them, you know, like he really does, very impressive, very modern

    • 0xb@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      1 month ago

      That would be the logical thing according to common sense and probably according to pichai a few weeks ago, but trump just nominated an anti big tech and musk friend to the FCC. musk is behind almost everybody in ai and autonomous cars so he’ll definitely push to hamper all competitors.

      Sure, we don’t know how far would they go or how long will musk keep having white house influence and I personally think breaking up google is now off the table, but I don’t think they will get off the hook too easily.

      So surely a very big bribe.