US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android

The US Department of Justice is planning to ask Google's antitrust trial judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser after it was ruled that the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, says The Verge.

The report, originally published by Bloomberg, has added fuel to the fire in what could be and historic crackdown on one of the world's biggest tech companies.

Chrome is the world's most widely used browser, and the government's lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google's products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for competition to grow.

Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Another requirement would say it has to share more information with advertisers and that it "give them more control over where their ads appear," the outlet writes.

Bloomberg also reports that officials will recommend that the company "give websites more options to prevent their content from being used by Google's artificial intelligence products." Finally, they will reportedly push for "a ban on the type of exclusive contracts that were at the centre of the case against Google."

Google's regulatory affairs VP, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said that the DOJ "continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case," Bloomberg writes.