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Dave LeClair

US Government wants to break up Google — and it could 'mark the end of Google’s dominance'

Google logo on building.

It's official time for Google to have its moment in court in front of the U.S. government as it relates to its dominance of the search engine market. In August, a judge ruled that Google had violated antitrust laws to maintain its dominance in online search, and the government's potential solution involves breaking Google apart.

Specifically, the government, through Judge Amit P. Mehta, seeks to separate the company's popular web browser, Chrome, as reported by The New York Times.

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