After winning a landmark antitrust case against Google on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice won't just seek to diminish the company's lucrative alliance with Apple.
In the next phase of the case, which involves meting out punishments for Google's illegal monopoly, government lawyers are also likely to try to hamper the company's effort to dominate the next version of search conversational artificial intelligence-and make it easier for rival search providers to eat into its 95% share of the market, according to lawyers who have been following the case.
DOJ lawyers will almost certainly also ask the judge for "structural remedies," such as forcing Google to divest Android-which the judge said helped Google improperly perpetuate its monopoly-rather than just "behavioral" changes to the way Google runs its search business and partnerships with companies like Apple, said Gene Burrus, a former assistant general counsel at Microsoft