Google to Reportedly Appeal Court Ruling on Antitrust as It Risks Losing Chrome

The lengthy trial of Google's antitrust case recently heard the closing arguments, and the company has now revealed that it plans to appeal the ruling by the federal court.

Google has already lost in court, with the Department of Justice successfully proving that the company has violated the antitrust law, claiming that the company has engaged in monopolies to keep its search engine and products ahead of the competition.

Google Reportedly Plans to Appeal Court Ruling

Google has shared a long thread over at X which details the latest happenings in court regarding their antitrust case, and here, the company shares that it still has plans to fight against the ruling of the federal court.

According to Google, they believe that the court's original decision "was wrong," and the company revealed that they are now planning to file an appeal against it.

The remedy phase of the antitrust case talked about the suggested solutions, with the Justice Department saying that the company should turn away from monopolizing the search and advertisement spaces online. However, one of the proposed solutions includes the sale of Chrome, with this being one of the ways to ensure that Google will no longer violate the antitrust law.

Google May Lose Chrome: Antitrust Fallout

While the DOJ shared many possible solutions to the problem, including trumping the agreements Google had with companies like Apple and Samsung to make their search engine the default among platforms, there is still one massive proposal that could spell the end for Google Chrome.

Google said that there are possible dangers could come with Chrome's sale, including privacy issues. with the company wanting to have an oversight committee to monitor its activities and operations instead.

Google vs. DOJ: Antitrust Fiasco

Google's fight with the DOJ began in 2020 when the company faced a complaint about its search and advertising monopoly on the internet. However, it was only in late 2024 that Google saw the end of the grueling trial, with the company being found guilty of violating antitrust law. Earlier this year, the legal proceedings moved on to the remedy phase.

In this remedy phase, the DOJ and Google presented their case on what would happen to the company and the possible solutions to fix the problems that they want to propose. The DOJ also invited several companies who expressed their sentiments on how Google's monopoly affected them, with some also making it known that they are interested in purchasing Chrome should Google be pushed to divest.