A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
But if you split Chrome and the browser team, from the Search Engine team, and from the Advertising team, then all of a sudden they’re not all just one stacked product anymore, and so while Chrome may currently have the lions share of the market, it’s now competing on the same footing as Firefox and the rest.