
Google filed a outlines how it will remedy antitrust violations alleged by the Department of Justice, after the and face restrictions that prevent it from favoring Android’s own search engine. Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia in August that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and Google said in a proposal filed Friday night that it disagreed with the ruling but suggested ways to make its contracts with browser companies and Android device makers more flexible.
In one summarizing the filing, Google’s VP of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland wrote that the proposal would allow browser companies like Apple and Mozilla to “continue to offer Google Search to their users and get revenue from that partnership,” while allowing them to have “multiple default. agreements on different platforms (for example, a different default search engine for iPhones and iPads) and browsing modes browsers can change their default search provider every 12 months. The proposal would also give device makers “more flexibility to preload multiple search engines, and preload any Google app independently to preload Search or Chrome.”
Google said it plans to appeal the judge’s decision before a hearing in April, and will submit a revised proposal on March 7. In the blog post, Mulholland called the DOJ’s proposal “overboard ,” went on to write that it reflects an “interventionist agenda” and “beyond what the Court actually decided — our agreements with search distribution partners.”