They ask the judge to break Google

The Ministry of Justice said on Monday that the best way to fight Google’s monopoly in Internet research was to break the company of $ 1.81 Billion, launching a three -week audience that could reshape the technology giant and modify powerful Silicon Valley players.

Judge Amit P. Mehta, from the American district court of the Columbia district, judged in August that Google had violated antitrust laws to maintain its domination in online research. He now hears the arguments of the government and the company on the best way to repair Google’s monopoly and should order these measures, called “remedies”, at the end of the summer.

In a declaration of opening of the hearing on Monday, the government said that judge Mehta should force Google to sell its popular Chrome web browser, which leads users to its search engine. Government lawyers have also said that the company should take measures to give competitors one step ahead if the court wanted to restore competition on the moribund market for online research.

“Your honor, we are not here for a Pyrrhic victory,” said David Dahlquist, lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, in his declaration of opening. “It’s time for the court to tell Google and all the other monopolists who listen, and they listen, that there are consequences when you break the antitrust laws.”

Google’s lawyers have attempt that judge Mehta should just target his remedies. More specifically, they said, the court should only examine a group of tenders that the company concludes with Apple, Mozilla, Samsung and others to be the search engine which appears automatically in web browsers and smartphones. These transactions were at the heart of the government against society.

Google’s proposal “directly responds to the legal determinations of this court, but it also makes it much more,” said John Schmidtlein, main lawyer for Google.