The request followed a landmark ruling in August by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search.
Beyond the sale of Chrome, the government asked Judge Mehta to give Google a choice: Either sell Android, its smartphone operating system, or be barred from making its services mandatory on phones that use Android to operate.
In a sweeping filing, the government also asked the judge to stop Google from entering into paid agreements with Apple and others to be the automatically selected search engine on smartphones and in browsers.
While these are just D.O.J.'s recommendations and I suspect Google will reply with brutal force. If by chance Google has to sell either of Chrome or Android, I'm curious to know how would that benifit and impact decentralized and Distributed search engines?