The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing options to curb Google’s market power, a development reported by Verge. The inquiry arrives as regulators in both the United States and Canada assess how a handful of large platforms shape access, pricing, and innovation. The core issue centers on whether Google’s size across search, mobile operating systems, and app distribution stifles real competition and unfairly hinders rivals from gaining ground. The department has launched a formal review that weighs both behavioral remedies that would govern Google’s conduct and structural remedies that could alter the company’s ownership or organizational layout. In practical terms, the plan spans a spectrum of possible actions, from tighter constraints on conduct to the possibility of divestitures of key business units such as the Chrome browser, the Android operating system, or Google Play, if the facts show sustained harm to competition. The Verge report frames this moment as a pivotal point in the ongoing dialogue about platform power and consumer choice in North American digital markets.
