Google on trial: US antitrust pushes for Chrome breakup to revive search engine competition

Alphabet’s Google faces a historic trial on Monday as U.S. antitrust enforcers in Washington seek to force the tech giant to sell off its Chrome browser as part of a bid to restore competition to the market for online search engines.

The outcome of the trial could fundamentally reshape the internet by unseating Google as the go-to portal for information online. The US Department of Justice hopes it will prevent Google’s dominance from extending to artificial intelligence.