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After a federal judge ruled that Google had a monopoly on the search market, the tech giant and the government are in court to debate penalties. One possible result: forcing Google to spin off Chrome.

This is right and wrong. Yes, Google’s product is widely considered to be the best. But underpinning its search dominance is its position as the default search engine across a variety of ...

As Google used those deals to attract more users, it gathered more data and made its search engine better, locking in an advantage over alternatives like Microsoft’s Bing. Judge Mehta agreed.

The government’s data-related proposal falls somewhere in between. It includes requiring Google to share user search information and license its search index, a database of hundreds of billions ...

After a federal judge ruled that Google had a monopoly on the search market, the tech giant and the government are in court to debate penalties. One possible result: forcing Google to spin off Chrome.