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The US government is pushing for Google to sell its Chrome web browser.
A federal judge ruled in August that the tech giant holds an illegal monopoly over internet search, and the Department of Justice is seeking to break it up.
The sale could be worth up to $20 billion, marking Washington’s “most aggressive effort to rein in a technology company” since an unsuccessful attempt to break up Microsoft in 2004, Bloomberg said.
Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, and defaults to using Google for search — key for the company’s lucrative ad business, allowing it to see signed-in users’ activity and target promotions.
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