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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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UNCOVERED: Us considers breaking up google after illegal monopoly ruling reports say - Caught on Camera

People attend a Google conference
Google is planning to appeal the ruling that it violated antitrust laws to build a search monopoly. Photograph: Juliana Yamada/AP

A week after a judge ruled that Alphabet’s Google illegally monopolized the online search market, the US Department of Justice is considering options that include breaking up the tech giant, worth some $2tn, according to reports from the New York Times and Bloomberg News.

Divesting the Android operating system was one of the remedies most frequently discussed by justice department attorneys, the reports said.

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