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The Department of Justice is reportedly pushing to ram Google to whirl off its Chrome web browser line .

That ’s according to Bloomberg , whichreportsthat the Justice Department is also planning to commend to a Union judge that Google confront antitrust requirement pertain to AI and its Android mobile operating system .

The enforcement actions are the product of the Justice Department’shistoric multiyear character against Google , which sought to turn out that the technical school hulk has a web lookup monopoly in the U.S. The Justice Department won its case in August ; Union judge Amit Mehta decree that Google broke antitrust laws in both on-line lookup and search text ad market .

Why target Chrome ? The Justice Department argues that it represents a key accession point through which many mass apply Google Search . Chrome controls about 61 % of the internet browser market in the U.S.,accordingto web traffic service StatCounter .

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