United States to propose how Google should boost online search competition

The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to outline on Tuesday what kind of actions Alphabet’s Google could be ordered to take to restore competition in online search, potentially including a breakup of the Big Tech company.

After a federal court in August ruled Google controls an illegal monopoly in online search, smaller rivals want the court to force Google to spin off its Chrome browser, or at least prohibit it from continuing to pay billions of dollars to make its search engine the default on devices such as Apple’s iPhone.